gedit hangs (hogs CPU) on read error

[Anton]

Binary package hint: gedit

When opening a file that gives a 'read error' gedit hangs. The window is non-responsive, but can be closed (force close), but the gedit process remains. It will use 100% CPU, and, worse, cannot be TERM'ed, KILL'ed or STOP'ped.

This happened to me twice when opening a text file on a (faulty) CD (two different CD's). The only solution I have found is a re-boot. The fact that gedit is the default for opening text files in Ubuntu does not help here (this is why it happened twice to me), although normally I have no quarrels with gedit at all.

IMHO, this situation should *NEVER* occur. Read errors, although not frequent nowadays, do happen and are no reason for your program (or system) to go insane. (I am working now with my laptop fan blaring loudly due to the CPU load. The thing is getting hot on my lap too...)

I would *expect* any process that gets read errors on a file, to catch them and give a nice, short, apologetic message to the user about not being able to read the file. Perhaps a choice like 'Ignore', or 'Abort' would be useful.

Here are the info thingies:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
gedit:
  Installed: 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
My system was upgraded from Feisty (and from Gutsy, IIRC).

(I'm off for a reboot now...)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace of the hang http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Anton (feenstra)]

Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace of the hang
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the
> bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

I just tried, but the CD that gave me the read errors (not just with
gedit, I tried less and sum as well), now is giving no errors...

So, I cannot recreate the error situation right now.

I'll try it as soon as I find a good bad CD... ;-)

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Groetjes,

Anton
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.