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Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-standard-support on April 29, 2021. I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue while using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time. ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to vim in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584539 Title: 16.04 regression: exceptions in ruby code in plugins have started causing vim to segfault Status in vim package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: In 14.04, an exception in the ruby code of a plugin caused the error to be printed to stderr, after which vim would launch, skipping the offending plugin: Error detected while processing /mnt/terra/home/simon/dev/vim-livecoding/plugin/livecoding.vim: line 37: NameError: undefined local variable or method `undefined_method_causing_an_exception' for main:Object Press ENTER or type command to continue But in 16.04, the same thing causes vim to segfault: Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. Segmentation fault (core dumped) ------- Vim version in 14.04: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 2 2014 19:39:59) Included patches: 1-52 Modified by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Compiled by buildd@ Huge version with GTK2 GUI. Vim version in 16.04: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Apr 08 2016 11:38:28) Included patches: 1-1689 Modified by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Compiled by pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Huge version with GTK2 GUI. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: vim-gtk 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sun May 22 22:33:45 2016 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is a distribution channel descriptor # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-20140620-0 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-25 (392 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20140620-04:25 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: vim UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-22 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/1584539/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp