Originally posted by: strikr

Hi:

the following error(s) are seen on starting vim on AIX 7.2.0

$ vim  
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program vim because of the following errors:
        0509-130 Symbol resolution failed for vim because:
        0509-136   Symbol _Py_svnversion (number 349) is not exported from
                   dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpython2.7.a(libpython2.7.so).
        0509-136   Symbol _Py_hgversion (number 350) is not exported from
                   dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpython2.7.a(libpython2.7.so).
        0509-136   Symbol _Py_hgidentifier (number 351) is not exported from
                   dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libpython2.7.a(libpython2.7.so).
        0509-192 Examine .loader section symbols with the
                 'dump -Tv' command.

the installed software list along with versions may be seen below

AIX-rpm-7.2.0.0-5
bash-4.4-3
bzip2-1.0.6-2
cloud-init-0.7.5-4.2
curl-7.47.1-1
db-4.8.24-4
expat-2.1.0-1
expect-5.42.1-3
fdupes-1.51-1
fontconfig-2.11.95-2
freetype2-2.4.4-3
gcc-8.1.0-2
gcc-c++-8.1.0-2
gcc-cpp-8.1.0-2
gcc-go-8.1.0-2
gdb-7.8.2-1
gdbm-1.10-1
gettext-0.19.8-1
gettext-devel-0.19.8-1
git-2.15.1-1
glib2-2.48.1-2
gmp-6.1.1-1
gzip-1.6-2
info-5.0-2
less-481-1
libX11-1.6.3-1
libXft-2.3.2-2waixX11
libXrender-0.9.9-1
libffi-3.2.1-2
libffi-devel-3.2.1-2
libgcc-8.1.0-2
libgo-8.1.0-2
libgo-devel-8.1.0-2
libiconv-1.14-1
libidn-1.33-1
libmpc-1.0.3-2
libssh2-1.4.2-2
libstdc++-8.1.0-2
libstdc++-devel-8.1.0-2
libtool-ltdl-2.4.6-2
libunistring-0.9.6-2
libxcb-1.12-1waixX11
libxml2-2.6.17-3
libyaml-0.1.4-1
mpfr-3.1.4-1
ncurses-6.1-1
openldap-2.4.44-5
openssl-1.1.0g-1withsslv2
osinstall-1.4-1
perl-5.26.2-1
pkg-config-0.25-3
python-2.7.15-1
python-PyYAML-3.11-2
python-argparse-1.2.1-1
python-boto-2.34.0-1
python-cheetah-2.4.4-2
python-configobj-5.0.5-1
python-devel-2.7.15-1
python-docs-2.7.15-1
python-jsonpatch-1.8-1
python-jsonpointer-1.0.c1ec3df-1
python-oauth-1.0.1-1
python-prettytable-0.7.2-1
python-pyserial-2.7-1
python-requests-2.4.3-1
python-setuptools-0.9.8-2
python-six-1.3.0-1
python-test-2.7.15-1
python-tools-2.7.15-1
python-xml-0.8.4-1
readline-6.2-3
rsync-3.1.2-3
sqlite-3.7.15.2-3
tcl-8.6.8-1
tk-8.6.8-1
tkinter-2.7.15-1
unixODBC-2.3.6-2
unzip-6.0-3
vim-common-7.4-2
vim-enhanced-7.4-2
xcb-proto-1.12-1
xz-libs-5.2.2-2
zip-2.3-3
zlib-1.2.11-1

Anyone knows how the errors can be fixed ? which package do we need to upgrade / re-install ?

Thanks for your time.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Current VIM package in AIX Toolbox won't work with the latest python. You can go back to Python-2.7.10 to make it work but i won't recommend that.

We are working on this issue and a fixed VIM will be uploaded soon. 

Originally posted by: strikr

Thanks that helps.

i will keep the latest python 2.7.15 and leave 'vim' for another time.

warm regards

Saifi.

Originally posted by: sanket

I see you have python-2.7.15 on your system. 

it is not available on AIX toolbox from where did you install this version of python ?

Originally posted by: strikr

with the notable exception of 'AIX-rpm-7.2.0.0-5', all the RPM installed on the system are from Bull AIX freeware site http://www.bullfreeware.com/