E117: Unknown function: vundle#begin

[jm18919]

I had old vundle installed. Instead of using git pull to update vundle, I removed old vundle from ~/.vim and installed it folowing Quick Start section in the Github page of vundle.
I am currently using Archlinux.

Maybe I broke something when I installed new vundle. I get this:

jack@Jack-PC ~ $ vim .vimrc
Error detected while processing /home/jack/.vimrc:
line    6:
E117: Unknown function: vundle#begin
Error detected while processing function vundle#config#bundle..vundle#config#init_bundle..<SNR>6_rtpath..1:
line    1:
E121: Undefined variable: g:bundle_dir
E116: Invalid arguments for function s:expand_path(g:bundle_dir.'/'.self.name)
E15: Invalid expression: s:expand_path(g:bundle_dir.'/'.self.name)
Error detected while processing function vundle#config#bundle..<SNR>6_rtp_rm_a:
line    1:
E121: Undefined variable: g:bundles
E116: Invalid arguments for function copy(g:bundles), 'v:val.rtpath')
E116: Invalid arguments for function map(copy(g:bundles), 'v:val.rtpath')
E15: Invalid expression: map(copy(g:bundles), 'v:val.rtpath')
line    2:
E121: Undefined variable: paths
E116: Invalid arguments for function join(paths, ',')
E15: Invalid expression: join(paths, ',')
line    3:
E121: Undefined variable: paths
E116: Invalid arguments for function join(paths, '/after,').'/after'
E15: Invalid expression: join(paths, '/after,').'/after'
line    4:
E121: Undefined variable: prepends
E116: Invalid arguments for function fnameescape(prepends)
E15: Invalid expression: 'set rtp-='.fnameescape(prepends)
line    5:
E121: Undefined variable: appends
E116: Invalid arguments for function fnameescape(appends)
E15: Invalid expression: 'set rtp-='.fnameescape(appends)
Error detected while processing function vundle#config#bundle:
line    3:
E121: Undefined variable: g:bundles
E116: Invalid arguments for function add
Error detected while processing function vundle#config#bundle..<SNR>6_rtp_add_a:
line    1:
E121: Undefined variable: g:bundles
E116: Invalid arguments for function copy(g:bundles), 'v:val.rtpath')
E116: Invalid arguments for function map(copy(g:bundles), 'v:val.rtpath')
E15: Invalid expression: map(copy(g:bundles), 'v:val.rtpath')
line    2:
E121: Undefined variable: paths
E116: Invalid arguments for function join(paths, ',')
E15: Invalid expression: join(paths, ',')
line    3:
E121: Undefined variable: paths
E116: Invalid arguments for function join(paths, '/after,').'/after'
E15: Invalid expression: join(paths, '/after,').'/after'
line    4:
E121: Undefined variable: prepends
E116: Invalid arguments for function fnameescape(prepends)
E15: Invalid expression: 'set rtp^='.fnameescape(prepends)
line    5:
E121: Undefined variable: appends
E116: Invalid arguments for function fnameescape(appends)
E15: Invalid expression: 'set rtp+='.fnameescape(appends)
Error detected while processing /home/jack/.vimrc:
line   15:
E117: Unknown function: vundle#end
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I exactally followed the instractions on the Github page.

" .vimrc
set nocompatible
filetype off 

" Vundle 
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
Plugin 'gmarik/Vundle.vim'
call vundle#end()
filetype plugin indent on

/etc/vimrc only contains one line:

runtime! archlinux.vim    

And the content of archlinux.vim:

" The ArchLinux global vimrc - setting only a few sane defaults
"
" Maintainer:      Thomas Dziedzic [gostrc@gmail.com]
"
" NEVER EDIT THIS FILE, IT'S OVERWRITTEN UPON UPGRADES, GLOBAL CONFIGURATION
" SHALL BE DONE IN /etc/vimrc, USER SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION IN ~/.vimrc

" Normally we use vim-extensions. If you want true vi-compatibility
" remove change the following statements
set nocompatible                " Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility
set backspace=indent,eol,start  " more powerful backspacing

" Now we set some defaults for the editor
set history=50                  " keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler                       " show the cursor position all the time

" Suffixes that get lower priority when doing tab completion for filenames.
" These are files we are not likely to want to edit or read.
set suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc,.png,.jpg

if has('gui_running')
  " Make shift-insert work like in Xterm
  map <S-Insert> <MiddleMouse>
  map! <S-Insert> <MiddleMouse>
endif

The Dir tree:

.vim
└── bundle
    └── Vundle.vim
        ├── autoload
        │   ├── vundle
        │   │   ├── config.vim
        │   │   ├── installer.vim
        │   │   └── scripts.vim
        │   └── vundle.vim
        ├── changelog.md
        ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
        ├── doc
        │   └── vundle.txt
        ├── LICENSE-MIT.txt
        ├── README.md
        └── test
            ├── files
            │   └── test.erl
            ├── minirc.vim
            └── vimrc

The output of :scriptnames

  1: /etc/vimrc
  2: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/archlinux.vim
  3: ~/.vimrc
  4: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftoff.vim
  5: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/vundle.vim
  6: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/vundle/config.vim
  7: /usr/share/vim/vim74/filetype.vim
  8: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/conkyrc.vim
  9: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/systemd.vim
 10: /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/udev.vim
 11: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin.vim
 12: /usr/share/vim/vim74/indent.vim
 13: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
 14: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/gzip.vim
 15: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/matchparen.vim
 16: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
 17: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/rrhelper.vim
 18: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/spellfile.vim
 19: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
 20: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/tohtml.vim
 21: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
 22: /usr/share/vim/vim74/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
 23: /usr/share/vim/vim74/scripts.vim

[jm18919]

Anyone has an idea what happened?

[lucc]

what is the output of these commands:

cd ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
git remote -v
git pull
git rev-parse HEAD
grep -nC 3 'vundle#begin' autoload/vundle.vim

for me it is

origin  https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/gmarik/Vundle.vim.git (push)

git pull says Already up-to-date. and HEAD is at 0b28e33.
grep reports

69-
70-" Alternative to vundle#rc, offers speed up by modifying rtp only when end()
71-" called later.
72:func! vundle#begin(...) abort
73-  let g:vundle_lazy_load = 1
74-  call call('vundle#rc', a:000)
75-endf

Is this similar for you?

[jm18919]

I have totally the same output as you

[lucc]

There is something that I noticed only now:
Your :scriptnames says that you load Vundle from /usr/share/vim/vimfiles but your directory listing seems to be for ~/.vim. I guess you have two versions of Vundle installed (in your &rtp). If that is the case please remove one version. Else please provide the output of :echo &rtp and of find ~/.vim /usr/share/vim/vimfiles -ls. And also the output of the commands from my previous post for the directory /usr/share/vim/vimfiles.

[jm18919]

I remember that I have not installed Vunlde in /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/vundle.vim
and /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/vundle/config.vim. That is strange.

[jm18919]

Problem resolved! Thanks!

[whatyouhide]

@naijim Since this issue has been resolved, could you consider closing it? Thanks! 👍

[ideamean]

@lucc thanks, resolved it.

[Hearen]

@naijim Since you solved it! How about sharing some experience with us?! Thanks in advance!

[jm18919]

search your system and delete other vundle. just keep one copy of vundle in your .vim directory

[Hearen]

@naijim Thanks so much, though I have already solved that by reconfiguring the .vimrc.