Problem Installing on OS X

[kgust]

I have installed the VimChat bundle. Now starting vim gives me...

$ vim
Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT
Vim: Finished.
[1]    72948 abort    vi
$ 

I installed xmppy-0.5.0c1-py2.7.egg with easy_install xmpppy. That made no difference.

My Vim (7.4.258) is installed via Homebrew and does include +python. What am I doing wrong?

BTW, removing the plugin does cause the problem to go away.

[fifthposition]

(Disclaimer: I’m not a maintainer, just an interested would-be user who’s also had problems with installing VimChat on OS X and has never gotten it to work.)

Is that all the error it gives you (anything else from running :messages)? I don’t see a line number. Granted, there may be none, but if there happened to be one it would probably help with debugging.

Edit: Wait. Is that 72948 a line number? Now I really want to see any more message text. :smiley:

[kgust]

I'm sorry if I was unclear. Vim never starts up, that is the shell output. Vim is completely unusable in this state.

[fifthposition]

Ah ah ah. No, I think I was just a bit slow there (clearly could use more coffee).

Weird. I just tried installing it again myself and apparently failed — I ran the install script and also tried using Vundle, but I don’t see the :VimChat command — so I can’t even see if Vim starts up when it’s installed. :disappointed:

Edit again: The Vundle problem seems to be its own issue, which I’d missed. https://github.com/ironcamel/vimchat/issues/26

[fifthposition]

OK — just my own oversight once again (sorry!). Apparently I’d not installed xmpppy on this machine. I just did, and now with an account listed in the config file, I get:

Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV

Vim: Finished.
zsh: segmentation fault  vim

(I’m using zsh.) So that makes two of us.

One (notable?) difference is that I don’t get the segfault until I run the :VimChat command. Vim starts up fine with the plugin installed. And the problem starts with the server communication, I’d wager; with no account in the config file, I can run the command, although nothing happens.

[kgust]

I'm also using ZSH but I just verified the problem is exactly the same if you use Bash.

Odd that it's dying with a different process signal (mine: ABRT, yours: SEGV).

Originally I didn't have an account in my .vimchat/config file but there was no change when I added one.

I still think there are missing dependencies, but I don't know which ones or how to install them.

[fifthposition]

I’m wondering if there are outdated dependencies. Similarly though I don’t know which ones they would be (I’m sadly no Pythonist). @ironcamel? @throughnothing?

[ironcamel]

@throughnothing uses OSX exclusively. Sorry, I only have access to linux machines. @throughnothing, want to chime in?

[ironcamel]

@kgust @fifthposition I had some trouble recently getting vimchat to run on arch linux because of a bug in the xmpppy library: https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/issues/124#issuecomment-69775480

I got around it by installing this this forked version of xmppy which has patched the bug: https://github.com/ArchipelProject/xmpppy

pip install git+https://github.com/ArchipelProject/xmpppy

Can you guys try installing that and see if it fixes your issue.