gvim runs away with CPU while terminal vim does not

[Nick Moffitt]

Since upgrading to oneiric I find that gvim can go into a state where it is regularly unresponsive, and that it goes grey for several seconds at a time. I do not have this problem running vim in a terminal. I have a rather customized configuration, so I will try to attach my configs next.

It seems to depend on what my first keystroke is. If I gvim a file and hit 'j' first, it goes grey and does this for every keystroke I hit. If I instead hit 't' and then a character on the line, everything appears fine and I can hjkl around without trouble.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: vim 2:7.3.154+hg~74503f6ee649-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.17-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 14 09:54:12 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (0 days ago)

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

further clarification: if I force-quit the grey vim, I find a gvim process consuming 100% CPU that must be kill -9'd to clear out.

here's my .vimrc

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

Here's my .gvimrc

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

I'm happy to supply portions of my .vim/ dir on request. I've got a bunch of disabled plugins, and I've got the color scheme mentioned and pyflakes.vim.

The lockups seem to happen at each keystroke.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michael Wayne Goodman (goodmami)]

I also see this problem. When running gvim from the command line, I get the following warnings:

(gvim:4757): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(gvim:4757): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(gvim:4757): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(gvim:4757): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(gvim:4757): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application accessible

(gvim:4757): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libgail' which is needed to make this application accessible

** (gvim:4757): WARNING **: (../../atk-adaptor/bridge.c:669):adaptor_init: runtime check failed: (root)

I do not see gvim spiking the CPU though. And I notice these problems even if I move all my vim configs out of the way (e.g. .vimrc > .vimrc.bak). Also note that I do have the "libgail-3-common" and "libgail18" packages installed. I do not see a "libgail-gnome" package to install.

Running "gvim -f" does nothing for the warnings, but does make it responsive.

[Michael Wayne Goodman (goodmami)]

My problem is closer to another bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/856779), and this one may or may not be a duplicate of it.