GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 585995
Freezes on large amount text in scrollback buffer
Last modified: 2021-06-10 14:13:16 UTC
Please describe the problem: Gnome Terminal simply freezes with default settings when receiving a lot of data to scrollback. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open terminal 2. Run, for example, 'strace gedit' and wait. Actual results: Terminal window freezes. Expected results: Does this happen every time? Only with gtk some engines (Murrine, Aurora, maybe others). Other information: Workaround is to enlarge scrollback size.
Other workaround is to disable scrollbar.
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aaaaaah i cant reproduce your fail... i put strace gedit, and all ok... my gnome-terminal on ubuntu 9.04 work fine
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen the bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME 2.28.0 or later, thanks.
(In reply to comment #3) > aaaaaah i cant reproduce your fail... > i put strace gedit, and all ok... > my gnome-terminal on ubuntu 9.04 work fine I can reproduce it on Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME 2.30.2. If I fire up a fresh gnome-terminal and run "strace gedit" it seems to hang maybe 50% of the time. The terminal gets into a state where pressing keys (including Control-C and Control-Z) has no effect whatsoever. I can still close the terminal by clicking the "X" button on the title bar.
> I can reproduce it on Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME 2.30.2. If I fire up a fresh > gnome-terminal and run "strace gedit" it seems to hang maybe 50% of the time. > The terminal gets into a state where pressing keys (including Control-C and > Control-Z) has no effect whatsoever. I can still close the terminal by clicking > the "X" button on the title bar. No, I can't reproduce, and try and try and I can't do it... now I try with gnome-terminal 2.30.2-Ubuntu
I have gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu5 and libvte9 1:0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1. Is there anything I can do to help diagnose the problem when it happens?
hmmm ok, can you install the debug package for strace?? because I uninstall this package and I managed to reproduce this bug. If you can confirm this this problem is NOT GNOME. please feedback, thank
> mmm ok, can you install the debug package for strace?? Where from? I can only find: $ aptitude search strace p dnstracer - trace DNS queries to the source i strace - A system call tracer I'm running a normal Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system.
I'm sure I've seen this before, and no it's not been fixed. I'm even sure it's a dupe of some other bug, but can't find it right now. Anyway, please leave open.
I think some of the analysis in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688127 might be relevant here. The problem is especially prominent when using the scroll wheel, since every single notify event triggers a bunch of regex matching.
*** Bug 682118 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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