gedit does not open xml file

[Andrew Frank]

Binary package hint: gedit

gedit does not open a file which a hex editor shows to be an xml file with a regular encoding (attached; produced by oo writer - saveAs flat XML format).

gedit does not fail to open, but just does not return - it must be killed (preferably by clicking on the close box where it says 'gedit is not responding' and then click on force quit).

two bugs:
it should open the file for editing
it should at least return with an error message

thank you

andrew

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 20 16:22:50 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.20.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gedit file:///home/frank/Desktop/cvs%20_test/adoc.xml
ProcCwd: /home/frank
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux atlantaG 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

i run gutsy and the software is updated oct 20, 2007

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, it open fine here, no hang. But the format isn't the better. not confirming, Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

[Hugh Winkler (hughw)]

I am able to repro this bug in Gutsy . Please reopen.

opening the file with Gedit never displays anything, Gedit becomes unresponsive, CPU goes to 99%, and after a time I just have to kill gedit.

The problem seems to be the lack of line endings in the file. I can open the file in gedit, only if I first process and save the file using Oxygen XML, which asks me if I want to save it formatted with line endings.

I have a similar but slightly different problem and I am uploading a test file . In my case, the large XML file has \r\n line endings at the beginning, but subsequently the line endings are \n. Gedit opens the file and displays a screenful of text, but then goes into the CPU 99% and unresponsive behavior.

I tried following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash but they seem to be for the case of a program crash. In this case, we have to SIGKILL the program, and there is no backtrace after following the instructions. I also tried changing the gdb command to "handle SIGKILL" but it dis n ot produce a backtrace either. Please advise how to get you the info you need.

[Hugh Winkler (hughw)]

Unsure how to 'reopen' a bug --sorry if marking it confirmed is not the right thing. But I have confirmed it.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Confirming, will look upstream, thanks for your report.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516005

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed upstream already, thanks for reporting.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is in intrepid

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Where/how is this fixed for Hardy? It is impossible to open a 727Kb OpenOffice styles.xml file in Gedit or Bluefish. CPU on both goes to 97% on a 2.4Ghz/1GB machine and stays that way until the process is killed.