Bug 542761 – Infinite loop in html_engine_delete

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Bug 542761 - Infinite loop in html_engine_delete


Summary:	Infinite loop in html_engine_delete


Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	GtkHtml
Classification:	Other
Component:	Editing
Version:	3.18.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	gtkhtml-maintainers
QA Contact:	gtkhtml-maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:	gnome[unmaintained]

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2008-07-13 11:17 UTC by Øystein Gisnås
Modified:	2017-07-30 16:01 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.21/2.22

Description Øystein Gisnås 2008-07-13 11:17:13 UTC

Please describe the problem:
While deleting a group of lines in the composer, evolution entered an
infinite loop. Here are a few backtraces that I gathered while it
occured.

+ Trace 202692

#0 html_engine_delete
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1835
#1 command
at gtkhtml.c line 4990
#2 html_g_cclosure_marshal_BOOLEAN__ENUM
at htmlmarshal.c line 122
#3 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#4 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#5 gtk_binding_entry_activate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.12.10/gtk/gtkbindings.c line 536
#0 html_object_is_container
at htmlobject.c line 1337
#1 html_text_cursor_forward
at htmltext.c line 2588
#2 forward
at htmlcursor.c line 220
#3 html_cursor_real_forward
at htmlcursor.c line 251
#4 delete_upto
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1783
#5 html_engine_delete
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1870
#6 command
at gtkhtml.c line 4990
#7 html_g_cclosure_marshal_BOOLEAN__ENUM
at htmlmarshal.c line 122
#8 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 gtk_binding_entry_activate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.12.10/gtk/gtkbindings.c line 536
#0 free
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 html_engine_disable_selection
at htmlselection.c line 253
#2 updater_idle_callback
at htmlengine-edit-selection-updater.c line 95
#3 delete_object
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 754
#4 delete_upto
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1781
#5 html_engine_delete
at htmlengine-edit-cut-and-paste.c line 1870
#6 command
at gtkhtml.c line 4990
#7 html_g_cclosure_marshal_BOOLEAN__ENUM
at htmlmarshal.c line 122
#8 g_closure_invoke
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 ??
from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 gtk_binding_entry_activate
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.12.10/gtk/gtkbindings.c line 536



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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
This bug was first reported by Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490002 for details.

Comment 1 André Klapper 2014-08-30 15:26:53 UTC

This ticket has not seen any updates or duplicates since 2010.
Is this still a problem in a recently released version?
If not, this ticket might get closed as obsolete.
(Furthermore, GtkHtml is slowly getting superseded by WebKit in Evolution.)

Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-07-30 16:01:00 UTC

GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.