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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Showstopper bug in "kate" -- More Info.
From:       Anders Lund <anders.lund () lund ! tdcadsl ! dk>
Date:       2002-11-05 22:15:56
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On Sunday 03 November 2002 03:51, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have come across a showstopper bug in kate. It can eat all my
> > remaining HDD space. A normal user wouldn't know how to get out.
> >
> > Sorry, I am not able to currently contact bugzilla to check if
> > it is already in there. Please, someone check and feed it in.
> >
> > To reproduce:
> >
> > * Open a text file in "kate".
> > * Try to print it.
> > * In the "kprinter" dialog, check "preview" option as "on".
> > * Choose any printing system (I checked with CUPS and "external
> > program"). * On "Text Settings" tab, check the "Print Syntax Guide"
> > option as "on" plus "Print Line Numbers" option as "on"
> >
> > You'll notice the printfile not being previewed and kate hanging.
> > The dialog window appears "Printing document: <name of text file>.
> > Generating print data: page x" with a "Close" button which doesn't
> > work...
> >
> > There is an eternal loop which writes line after line of
> >
> > "Kate (Document): -- Skipping garbage, line: 13 start: 3 end: 0 !?"
> >
> > until the HDD is full, into my "$HOME/.xsession-errors" (or, on my
> > other system, in my $HOME/.X.err") file. The only way out is to
> > kill the "kdeinit: kate" process.
> >
> > The one system is ~10 days old CVS, the other is from last night
> > (including new qt-copy) [and currently I can't get the freshly
> > updated qt-copy to compile.... :-(  ]
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kurt
> >
> > Oh, BTW, I think the new extensions for the printing options in
> > KDE's text editors are beautiful. I think all developers who want
> > to print code occasionally will like it. These boxes and headers
> > and footers and colors and the quickhelp for the supported tags
> > and the layout options and the syntax highlighting are looking
> > beoutifull. At LWE everybody who saw it liked it very much.
> > .
> > And, the "%U" makro doesn't work for me. It should print the full
> > URL of the document, but only prints "%U" verbally...
>
> Kate works for me allright for all text files with up to 12 lines.
> I created this simple text file with 13 lines
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 0
> 1
> 2
> 3
>
> When I print it with the "preview", the "line numbering" and the
> "print syntax guide" options on, I get a similar effect as described
> above. The dialog counts now up the pages (currently it is at
> 762), while in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" I now get the lines:
>
> Kate (Document): Starting new page, 23759 lines up to now.
> kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Generating print data: page 458
> Kate (Document): Starting new page, 23811 lines up to now.
> kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Generating print data: page 459
> Kate (Document): Starting new page, 23863 lines up to now.
> kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Generating print data: page 460
>
> counting upward forever...

This sould be fixed in CVS, please update and test.

Thanks to cullmann for helping me with this bug!

-anders

 
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