[Bug 1611363] Re: vim.gtk3 crashes frequently with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_unix64()

[David Barnett]

Can you patch vim-gnome to point to vim-gtk instead of vim-gtk3 in the
meantime?

I know many people who are used to installing "vim-gnome" to get the
desktop integration and were baffled when their vim broke. It's not so
obvious that several of the packages Ubuntu offered are just broken and
you need to uninstall those and try again.

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Title:
  vim.gtk3 crashes frequently with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_unix64()

Status in vim:
  Confirmed
Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in vim source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi, vim-gtk3 crashes so often on my system that it's borderline unusable.
  My system is a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04. I also (temporarily) renamed my customized ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim. My system is up-to-date as of today (2016-08-09); installed vim-gtk3 is 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.1.

  The crash happens only (but very frequently, not always) when I launch
  gvim, either by calling it from a shell or by double-clicking a file
  in Nautilus. Note that the crash is independent of whether I'm opening
  a file or not. (At least I tried both variations from the terminal.)

  There's also a report on vim's bugtracker, but since unity appears in
  the backtrace, the consensus is that it's probably Ubuntu-specific.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: vim-gtk3 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Aug  9 14:34:31 2016
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vim.gtk3
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-10 (29 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  ProcCmdline: gvim -f /home/username/Documents/schoul/2016/1G-TODO/01-systemes-equations-TODO/chap01_systemes-equations-NOTES.tex
  Signal: 11
  SourcePackage: vim
  StacktraceTop:
   ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunity-gtk3-parser.so.0
   ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
   ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
   ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
   ffi_call_unix64 () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
  Title: vim.gtk3 crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_call_unix64()
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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