"ln cosh 99999999" causes program to hang for long time / indefinitely

[Mike Fairbank]

Binary package hint: gcalctool

In scientific display mode, enter "ln cosh 99999999". This causes the program to hang for a long time / indefinitely. During this hang, the calculator is unable to redraw itself and does not respond. I waited 5 minutes but got no response so terminated the application.

I am using gcalctool 5.28.2

Thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, that's not reproducible on lucid, could you please try the same on that version and comment back? thanks.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

I can confirm the long hang for Lucid - but I did get 99999998.306852819 as a result in the end, but only after several minutes... The general unresponsiveness has been already reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcalctool/+bug/347089
so I think this is a duplicate (@Mike: try 10 minutes ;-) )

[Mike Fairbank (michael-fairbank)]

Thanks Marcel. Yes it looks like this is a duplicate of the bug you cite (347089). It's good that it got the right answer in the end! However it would be better if there was a way to "escape" to cancel the long calculation, and the window redrawing did not stall during the calculation.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Ok, marking it as a duplicate then - please feel free to add any further comments to the other bug (or even better: to the attached upstream bug).