gedit crashes when writing <a href="

[Frédéric Bonifas]

Binary package hint: gedit

I am running gedit 2.19.91 whith gutsy gibbon.
When trying to write "<a href=" at line 105 of the attached file, the gedit screen becomes white and do not answer.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem. Adding this line works fine here on gutsy

[Gerry (gerrydm)]

I experienced this behavior earlier when editing HTML files. I can reproduce the behavior when opening the provided osm.html file and adding <a href=" to line 105. To reproduce:

- Open a gedit window
- Copy the source code into the editor
- Enable HTML syntax coloring
- Scroll to line 105
- Add <a href="

After typing the ", gedit starts eating all the available RAM and causes my machine to start swapping. I tried to get a backtrace by using gdb, but I was not successful (it said "no stack" when I entered "backtrace full", and I'm not familiarized with the gdb).

Used packages:

[gerry@djax ~ ] dpkg -l | grep gedit
ii gedit 2.19.91-0ubuntu1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop en
ii gedit-common 2.19.91-0ubuntu1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop en
ii gedit-dbgsym 2.19.91-0ubuntu1 debug symbols for package gedit

[Frédéric Bonifas (fredericbonifas)]

This is exactly the same for me and the backtrace is also not successful.

[gerard67 (mathieu-petit)]

Exactly same behaviour for me when editing a "alt" tag .. gedit process consumes all CPU, eventually freezing the whole gnome session, just mouse moves and crtl+alt+backspace allows to restart the session .. once the session is re-opened, I have to kill the CPU-consuming gedit process

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've sent the bug upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473123

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Craig Duquette (cduquette)]

Same issue here, it's very frusterating.

[Fernando Ribeiro (ipsec)]

gtksourceview2 (2.0.0-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

  [Aron Sisak]
    - Improvements many lang files
    - Removed SourceMarker API
    - Misc bugfixes (LP: #135702)
    - Updated translations

 -- Fernando Ribeiro <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:40:09 -0300

[Grzegorz Galezowski (spectral)]

This fix eliminated the problem in my case.

Thanks!

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Fixed for me too, thanks!