Keyboard shortcut dialog hangs when backspacing

[srihari sriraman]

This bug was reported to Gimp first https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704658
But I was asked to report it here because it could be distro specific.

Procedure to reproduce:
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- Open the keyboard shortcuts dialog
- Type in something > 3 characters long
- backspace all the way

It takes a very long time, close to 30 seconds, to backspace till the last
character and type again.

Some system information:
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$head -n1 /etc/issue:
 Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

$uname -a:
Linux srihari-laptop 3.2.0-51-generic-pae #77-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 24 20:40:32
UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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Not sure if this is useful, but when the keyboard shortcut dialog hangs, I see
this on my terminal:

(gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion
'b->depth > 0' failed

(gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion
'b->depth > 0' failed

(gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion
'b->depth > 0' failed

(gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion
'b->depth > 0' failed

(gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion
'b->depth > 0' failed

(gimp-2.9:25194): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare: assertion
'b->depth > 0' failed

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report and for your good descripition!

I will link this bug upstream.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Have you tested a ppa for GIMP instead of self compiling? I work with a ppa from GIMP 2.8.6 and can't reproduce this. This is on Ubuntu 13.04 raring.

But please don't forget Ubuntu only supports the packages from the software center.

[Péter Trombitás (trombipeti)]

Also having this issue with:
 *** 2.8.6-0precise1~ppa 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Ubuntu 12.04.

Strangely, it happens only when the length of the string decreases to anything under 3. No matter if I use delete instead of backspace.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I have unmarked GIMP. I can't reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 13.04, but does this bug happen only on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

This issue has sat incomplete for over six years without any response to comment #5. I'm going to close it as being fixed as the problem was confirmed by more than one user and doesn't seem to have been reproducible for some time.