On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I think there's a bug in MacVim that manifests when using its GUI form > but not when one calls it in the console. This bug doesn't affect > BramVim either. I have never seen this until Mavericks. > > There is more than one way to reproduce it. I'm going to include at > least two such ways because it might help shed light on the issue. > > ################## > > To reproduce, way #1: > > 0. Have some file (any file) already open in a MacVim window. > > 1. Navigate in the terminal to some file on your system that is owned by > root and for which only root is allowed read-access. If you can't find > one, do this: touch foo; sudo chown root:wheel foo; sudo chmod go-rwx > foo. > > 2. Do 'sudo -K' to make sure you shouldn't be able to read foo. Do > 'mvim -u NONE -U NONE foo', where 'foo' is that file. > > 3. Expected behavior: MacVim window appears with no contents but > '"foo" [Permission Denied]' at the bottom of the window. The MacVim > window that was already open remains untouched. > > 4. Actual behavior: MacVim instantly quits; all its windows are gone and > the green diamond vanishes from the Dock. No opportunity to save > unsaved documents is presented. > > 5. Observation: Console.app contains the following: > > p Vim[34269]: -[MMBackend(Private) connectionDidDie:]@2315: Main connection > was lost before process had a chance to terminate; preserving swap files. > > 6. Observation #2: The "Expected Behavior" is exhibited by MacVim if one > uses the console form (the Vim binary inside the app bundle, which I > call by pointing an executable bash script at its path). It's also > exhibited by BramVim. > > 7. Observation #4: I have never observed this kind of behavior on any > OS prior to Mavericks. I will try to follow the above reproduction > procedures on Tiger and Leopard and Lion later tonight. I predict, > however, that I will see the Expected Behavior. I know I've seen > "Permission Denied" in MacVim a million times before. > > 8. Observation #5: Occasionally the Expected Behavior will almost > occur, if I keep doing step 2 over and over. By "almost" I mean that I > get a MacVim window with "[Permission Denied]" down below, the other > windows don't quit, but the terminal spews forth (and Console.app > reports): > > MacVim[43957:303] Metadata.framework [Error]: void > _MDItemMarkAsUsedForPath(CFStringRef): was called with a NULL path > > Quitting MacVim and starting fresh will restore the behavior of step 4. > > Step 0 is of course not necessary to generate the buggy behavior, but it > helps for illustrative purposes. > > ################## > > To reproduce: way #2: > > 0. As before. > > 1. Create a symlink to a non-existent target: ln -s "fooblyfoobly > dummy". > > 2. Navigate in the terminal to the workind dir. Then do "mvim -u NONE > -U NONE dummy". > > 3. Expected behavior: New MacVim window with empty contents and '"dummy" > [New File]' at the bottom. > > 4. Actual behavior: as in step 4 above. All other observations are the > same. > > Observation: Doing "mvim" rather than double-clicking in the Finder is > necessary to show the bug, because otherwise the Finder will detect that > there's no underlying file and short-circuit things before handing off > to MacVim. > > ################## > > I sure hope this has nothing to do with AppNap. I have been seeing > strange delays in MacVim, only on Mavericks, only in GUI mode, that > shouldn't be happening. I just can't even begin to reliably reproduce > them for a report (which itself is some evidence that it's AppNap > related).
I cannot reproduce the crash you describe, but I do see the error Metadata.framework [Error]: void _MDItemMarkAsUsedForPath(CFStringRef): was called with a NULL path It's a private API related to file metadata, but I don't know what it means. Björn -- -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_mac" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
