Zenity --list uses 100%cpu and does nothing

[Nick]

Lubuntu 12.04-64
Zenity and zenity-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu3 from proposed/main archive.ubuntu.com

Eternal Lands (MMORPG-client) script (part of script):
...
{
 sort -u $serverfile | tr -d '\015' | grep -v -e ^$ -e ^# | \
 while read name dir server port description
 do
  echo $name
  echo $description
  echo $server
  echo $port
  echo $dir
 done | \
 zenity --title="Eternal Lands Launcher${non_standard}" --width=450 --height=280 \
  --list \
  --column "Name" \
  --column "Description" \
  --column "Server" \
  --column "Port" \
  --column "Directory" \
  --text "Choose the Server/Configuration - main is the standard"
}
...

When this script start - zenity get 25% of CPU and 22 Mb RSS and 430 Mb memory - and nothing (not window, not anything)...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[yurx cherio (cherio)]

After upgrading to 12.04 none of my zenity scripts that rely on the "--list" option work. They all hang consuming 100% of one CPU core. I am surprised this slipped into the LTS release.

[Andy S (andy-speed)]

I am also affected by this as it hangs while consuming one of the cpu cores but never displays anything.

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

it busy waits in tree.c:123:
123 while (g_io_channel_get_flags(channel) != G_IO_FLAG_IS_READABLE)
124 ;

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

easy to reproduce from an manpage example
find . -name '*' | zenity --list --title "Search Results" --text "Finding all header files.." --column "Files"

[Julian Taylor (jtaylor)]

revised listview patch

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Nick, or anyone else affected,

Accepted zenity into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Paul Broadhead (pjbroad)]

The packages in proposed fix the problem for me. Thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I also confirm that the hangs are gone, using both test cases in this bug and in bug 968534.

[Rico Zoss (rico.zoss)]

I also confim that the packages in proposed fix the problem for me. Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package zenity - 3.4.0-0ubuntu4

---------------
zenity (3.4.0-0ubuntu4) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_gio_get_flags.patch:
    - git patch backport to fix zenity running into a cpu loop when using
      the --list option (regression from the previous upload),
      thanks Julian Taylor (lp: #995435)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 10 May 2012 10:13:54 -0700

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

zenity (3.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * Mark zenity as Multi-Arch: foreign (thanks, Stéphane Graber).

  [ Michael Biebl ]
  * debian/patches/02_fix_segfault_in_listview.patch: Fix segfault when using
    --list option. Patch cherry-picked from upstream Git. Closes: #668292
  * Set <email address hidden> as Maintainer.

 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Sat, 12 May 2012 21:12:05 +0200

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

Zenity here in Trusty is still causing 100% CPU.
Just run:

$ zenity --list --column X </dev/null

...and try to close it, it won't close but stderr will be full of those:

(zenity:8103): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.4/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I can confirm #13 for trusty.