[SOLVED] vimdiff immediately becomes stopped job, crashes terminal when I try to fg it, but works with GUI

Issue

SOLVED: the problem was this line in my .vimrc:

set shell=/bin/bash\ -li

UPDATE: it appears the problem is due to my .vimrc (renaming the .vimrc to 'hide' it fixed the problem), so it probably has nothing to do with Mint.

I'm running Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon. When I run vim -d file otherversion in the terminal, I get a blank screen with

"otherversion" 18L, 218C
[1]+  Stopped                 vim -d file otherversion
user@machine:~/path/to/directory$ ;2R

If I do fg 1 that terminal window just closes. Also, there's no blinking cursor, though I am able to type. Same with vimdiff instead of vim -d. I've tried multiple distributions of vim, some that include the GUI, some that don't.

However, with versions that do include the GUI, if I run vim -d -g file otherversion, it works as expected.

I'd rather not depend on gvim to use vimdiff.

Any advice?

Thanks

Solution

After removing the following line from my .vimrc, the problem went away:

set shell=/bin/bash\ -li

Answered By - user3391564

Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)