How to deal with "E431: Format error in tags file" ?

[yicai]

now, I found my ctags has some error . And it is all right some days ago.

when I use it with hot_key "g + ]" , it always show the error as below:

E431: Format error in tags file "/home/yicailu/code/yr/tags"
Before byte 1188197171
Press ENTER or type command to continue

then I hit ENTER, it show that:

E426: tag not found: abs
Press ENTER or type command to continue

when I use the hot_key "ctr + ]", it can work well sometimes. I have been rebuilted the tags_file, even re_install the newest ctags. and the error is the same.

my os is ubuntu 10,4, vim version 7.2.330;

is anyone see that error, and kindly to tell me how to deal with it ?
Thanks a lot

[stephenfin]

Is this still an issue with latest release? I'm going to assume not (cheating I know :) ) and close for now.

[ghost]

I got this same issue on a large codebase with ubuntu 13.10. Using ^] and :tn, :tp worked. However g] and :ts did not work, causing the same E431 followed by E426 observed above.

[Ole2mail]

it's been repeated on my side:

• it's exactly 7 lines of some copy-paste source code block
• it's
  :ve
  VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov 24 2016 16:44:48)
  Included patches: 1-1689
  Extra patches: 8.0.0056
• it's Ubuntu 16.04
  Linux 4.4.0-71-generic Document show symbols suffix #92-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 24 12:59:01 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux