vim receives SEGV when entering visual mode

[Ben M.]

Binary package hint: vim

Whenever I press a button, which starts the visual mode in vim (like shift-v, ^V etc.), vim receives a segv and I have to kill the process.

This does happen in terminals xterm and gnome-terminal. But on my framebuffer-tty and gvim this does not happen.

I already tried reinstalling all installed vim~n-Packages using aptitude, but with no luck.
$ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l "vim*" 2>/dev/null | egrep "^i"
ii vim 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
ii vim-common 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 Vi IMproved - Common files
ii vim-doc 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 Vi IMproved - HTML documentation
ii vim-gtk 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GTK2 GUI
ii vim-gui-common 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
ii vim-runtime 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 Vi IMproved - Runtime files

I have no sophisticated plugins etc. installed. This is new in maverick and did not occur in lucid.

Please help, I need that visual mode (and no, I'm not going to switch to emacs ;-).

Thanks in advance.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: vim 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 29 11:58:19 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_BE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Ben,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

We would like to close this bug report as it refers to old versions of Ubuntu and vim but before we do we are asking if you still see a problem related to that which you reported?

If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for vim (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]