Re: gnome-terminal 2.5.experiences long pauses on solaris 8

["padraig o'briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

This may be bugzilla bug #93775. The corresponding Sun bug number is 4871054. This will be fixed in Solaris 10 and has been fixed in Solaris 9 Update 6. It does not seem to be fixed in Solaris 8.

Padraig.

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I shall take your advice and now
> that I have found out a few more details, I will be able to
> file a better bug report.
> 
> For the record, gnome-terminal goes into some kind of loop
> in which it repeatedly calls poll() when I try to select
> text.  This carries on for up to 10 seconds and each time,
> poll() returns the result that no activity has happened on
> any of the filehandles that it's watching.  Amongst the
> file handles are ones that relate to the connection to the
> X server and one that refers to the current pty.
> 
> Immediately before the poll, gnome-term has been writing
> data to the X server so I expect that it is waiting for
> something back - which it never gets, perhaps.
> 
> Cheers, :-)
> 
> Tim
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:23:00PM +0200 or thereabouts,
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> I have been experiencing a problem with gnome-terminal
> >> 2.5.x (both 2.5.0 and CVS head after 2.5.1) and vte
> 0.11.x
> >>  (I have tried CVS head and 0.11.10).  I am running them
> on
> >> Solaris 8 (sparc) and everything was compiled with
> >> gcc-3.3.2.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry, BTW, that I'm not subscribed but I can't
> afford
> >> to store the volume of messages in my webmail account.
> >
> > There is a handy "don't receive any mail from this list"
> > option in mailman, but then I suppose you wouldn't see
> > any replies, either. I presume you're reading from the
> > web archives?
> >
> >> There are three problems:
> >
> > I have snipped this, because I really have no idea on any
> > of it. Since there have been no other responses, I think
> I
> > would suggest you file it in bugzilla with all the detail
> > you included in the original message.
> >
> >> I hope that this is useful to someone.  Perhaps I will
> be
> >> able to work out how to get gprof to produce some
> profiling
> >> information which will indicate the source of the
> problem
> >> more precisely.
> >
> > I think it is useful information: it's just that none of
> > the gnome-terminal or vte people have spotted it in here
> :/
> >
> > Definitely bugzilla it, though: they can't escape it
> there :)
> >
> > Telsa
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