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Bug 566590 - Gedit crashes system when trying to open large files
Gedit crashes system when trying to open large files
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172099
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-05 09:46 UTC by Ilya Chernykh
Modified: 2009-01-10 10:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Ilya Chernykh 2009-01-05 09:46:57 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I've tried to open a file of about 600 Mb and not only Gedit but the system became unusable: mouse poiter stopped to move and when I switced to the text console I saw an infinite sequence of error messages.

Steps to reproduce:
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Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Susana 2009-01-10 10:23:36 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172099 ***