enters infinite loop on entering certain date formats

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Binary package hint: gedit

To reproduce:

Start gedit in the ru_RU.utf8 locale (this is important! in this locale %p yields an empty string, in the C or en_US.utf8 locale it doesn't and thus the bug is not reproducible).

Choose Правка > Вставить дату и время... (Edit > Insert Date and Time...) from the menu.

Choose the Использовать другой формат (Use custom format) option.

Try to enter %p in the provided box.

Once you do so, gedit starts consuming 100% CPU and compiz dims its window. At this point, you don't have any other option except to kill gedit.

Instead, gedit should process the provided date format and yield nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gedit 2.30.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 15 14:22:40 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

I am not a user of Ubuntu anymore, thus cannot test the version in Ubuntu. However, the bug is so simple that you should really test it yourself. And it does exist in version 2.30.4 in Gentoo.

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

The same bug also exists in gedit 3.0.6 in Gentoo

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Confirmed in gedit 3.3.3 - now it crashes in settings dialog, however apport cannot process this crash

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671438

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

I've attached a patch that should fix this upstream however I could not reproduce the bug on my system so its untested. Is someone with this issue able to apply the patch and test that it works?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue got fixed upstream in http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/commit/?id=121f02a3ea066565eeae5dd42868f822ecce4924

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This was fixed in gedit 3.8 which is available in Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" Alpha.