Issue with root user

[fakrul]

I am getting following error when try to use vi for root user:

# vi /etc/network/interfaces
syntastic: error: exception running system('uname'): Vim(let):E484: Cannot open file /tmp/vNHo9Ic/0
Error detected while processing function syntastic#util#system:
line   19:
E121: Undefined variable: g:_SYNTASTIC_DEBUG_CHECKERS
E116: Invalid arguments for function syntastic#log#debug

It's ok with non privilege users.

[jshearer]

Any update on this? I am also getting the same exact issue.

[ranosoft]

Me too. I'm getting the same, from some days ago.

[amix]

Please report this on https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic

[agarzon]

I'm having the same issue. Tested in all my centos 7 servers.

syntastic: error: exception running system('uname'): Vim(let):E484: Can't open file /tmp/v0jsoLf/0
Error detected while processing function syntastic#util#system:
line   19:
E121: Undefined variable: g:_SYNTASTIC_DEBUG_CHECKERS
E116: Invalid arguments for function syntastic#log#debug
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The problem is with syntastic, but vimrc should not ship broken code anyways. This plugin should be removed temporarily until syntastic fix the issue.

[lukasschwab]

If you're using fish as your shell, this is a relevant (documented) issue in the syntastic repo: https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic/issues/2013

[agarzon]

@lukasschwab You got me, that's right I use fish as shell. Thank you.

So based on that, my permanent solution is just to add this line into my config file:

~/.vim_runtime/my_configs.vim

let g:syntastic_shell = "/usr/bin/bash"

:+1:

[taninaim]

I had this problem earlier. I tried fixing it by updating vim. But somehow it said I had no space left in /var/cache/apt/archives. I even tried downloading ncdu to figure out what was eating up memory, but I didn't have enough space to install ncdu (even after removing some files on Desktop). So then I removed a few conda virtual environments, and this fixed the problem.