vim-enhanced oddness

Nathan Bryant nbryant at optonline.net
Mon Jan 26 16:41:37 UTC 2004


Ken Snider wrote:
> Using x86_64 test1 release.
> 
> when using vim (/usr/bin/vim), and creating a file:
> 
> [root at dw1.dw root]# vim blah
> 
> ..typing some text, then saving with :wq, presents the following:
> 
> Vim: Caught deadly signal ILL
> Vim: preserving files...
> 
> Vim: Finished.
> Illegal instruction
> 
> ../bin/vi does *not* have this problem,
> 
> Any ideas? any output I can capture to help narrow down the issue?

run it under the debugger gdb,

gdb vim
run blah

after it crashes, capture a stack trace with the 'bt' command





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