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Bug 755889 - Application window stops responding (freezes, hangs) if network-accessed file is temporarily unavailable
Application window stops responding (freezes, hangs) if network-accessed file...
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-09-30 16:19 UTC by Phill
Modified: 2016-01-13 10:30 UTC
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Description Phill 2015-09-30 16:19:47 UTC 
One method to reproduce on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
1) Create a virtual linux server using libvirt or anything with a pause button, SSH enabled.
2) Using nautilus to open an SFTP connection to it (sftp://myserver.local).
3) Open a file using gedit from nautilus.
4) Pause the server in libvirt.
5) Try typing something.
6) The gedit window turns grey and stops responding until you un-pause the server.

Suggested preferable behaviour:
1) Whatever gedit is doing or waiting for, allow the user to continue editing.
2) If there's a timeout or other problem, report it, but don't freeze the window.

Links:
Originally reported in Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1488493
Comment 1 Sébastien Wilmet 2015-09-30 17:24:50 UTC 
Did you read
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ReportingBugs

"Make sure that you use an up-to-date version of gedit"

3.10 is quite old.

Can you reproduce the bug with gedit 3.18 or 3.16?
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2015-10-01 06:10:52 UTC 
gedit 3.10 is quite old but it's the most recent version working correctly on non gnome-shell environments...
Comment 3 Sébastien Wilmet 2015-10-02 11:15:45 UTC 
But the upstream developers don't maintain that version anymore. If nobody is maintaining it upstream, the bugs should be reported downstream.

If you're willing to help the maintenance of the 3.10 version, you're welcome. You could backport bug fixes to the gnome-3-10 branch, create new releases, etc.

Note: gedit 3.18 works normally fine on the latest Xfce, to take a non-gnome-shell example.
Comment 4 Sébastien Wilmet 2016-01-13 10:30:46 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment.
Thanks!