taking your cue, I found in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/python27.conf: /opt/python27/lib
no idea how that got there, nothing owns it: > dpkg -S /etc/ld.so.conf.d/python27.conf dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/ld.so.conf.d/python27.conf > dpkg -S /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf libc-bin: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf > ls -al /opt/python27/lib/ total 5532 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 22 2012 ./ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 22 2012 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 22 2012 libpython2.7.so -> libpython2.7.so.1.0* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5630347 Aug 22 2012 libpython2.7.so.1.0* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 2012 pkgconfig/ drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 20480 Aug 22 2012 python2.7/ which gives you an idea on how old this debian install is I commented out the /opt/python27/lib, ran ldconfig -v, and now vim starts up. On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:48 PM, James McCoy <james...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo > > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:08:20PM -0500, Brian Dols wrote: > > vim fails to start with the error: > > vim: symbol lookup error: vim: undefined symbol: > PyUnicodeUCS4_AsEncodedString > > This is working fine for me from a fresh Jessie (stable) chroot. What > do you get for output from the following commands? > > $ which vim > $ ldd /usr/bin/vim.nox > $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* > > Also, is there any change in behavior if you run “vim -u NONE -N”, > “vim -u NORC -N”, or “vim --noplugin”? > > Cheers, > -- > James > GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org> > -- Brian Dols =-= Meson Software Development