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When there are running jobs Vim will not fork, because the processes would no longer be child processes. E851 E852 When starting the GUI fails Vim will try (5) Installed graphical GTK-based vim editor as test using: open display Press ENTER or type command to continue E852: The child process failed to start You can start vim as vim -u NONE -p first.txt second.txt This will prevent loading your vimrc file. – Martin Tournoij. Feb 18 '15 at 10You probably don't have an X server running. Look here for instructions on setting it up. Personally, I find it easier to just uninstall the