Bug 11934 – xchat-1.8.10-r1: tab completion with nothing entered causes xchat to lock up.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description marshal 2002-12-10 20:02:45 UTC]

In xchat-1.8.10-r1, if I attempt a tab completion without first entering
anything - ie '/msg <tab>' or even just tab on an empty line, xchat will lock
up, and the screen will be unresponsive.  Killing the window leaves an xchat
process running.  It must be manually killed with a kill -9.  I had previously
been seeing occasional lockups with xchat, but I've finally found something
easily repeatable.  I am using KDE (3.0.3).

I tried on a Debain (Testing) machine, which has xchat 1.8.9 and KDE 2.2.2. 
This machine does not have the problem mentioned above.

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.45 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2, glibc-2.2.5-r7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-pre7-ac3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
USE="x86 3dnow avi crypt encode gif jpeg kde libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses
pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb
slang readline arts bonobo svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl
python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl cdr sse -apm -cups -gnome dga oss
dvd mozilla tetex perl -nls doc"
ARCH="x86"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
JDK_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1"
JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"

[Comment 1 Matt Taylor 2002-12-11 13:36:52 UTC]

I have xchat 1.8.10-r1 and I don't see that problem.

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.45-r3 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib
qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv berkdb bonobo cdr directfb esd gdbm
gif gnome gnome-libs gpm gtk gtkhtml guile imlib libwww motif mozilla mysql nls
oggvorbis opengl pam perl png python readline sdl slang snmp ssl svga tcltk tcpd
tiff X -kde -qt -arts -java dvd encode"
ARCH="x86"
COMPILER=""
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
JDK_HOME=""
JAVA_HOME=""
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.oit.umass.edu/gentoo/gentoo
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2002-12-12 07:00:11 UTC]

I'm quite into xchat altough i haven't used the 1.8 series in a while and never
seen such a problem. You might want to cut down on optimisations first (eg. more
general arch, -O2) see if it still happens. Run it in console, see if it sais
anything when crashing.

[Comment 3 marshal 2002-12-15 10:45:50 UTC]

I've tried with optimisations -O2 and -O, and with -march i686, and also
remerged it after glibc-2.3.1 was emerged.  I've compiled from source (to get
debugging symbols) and run it from gdb.  I couldn't pinpoint what was causing
the problem, but it looks like something is causing an infinite loop, most
likely in the tab_nick_comp in src/fe-gtk/fkeys.c.  Looking at the other
replies, my guess is that it's a kde interaction problem.  Unfortunately, I
don't have gnome on here.

[Comment 4 Miguel Sousa Filipe 2002-12-19 11:48:04 UTC]

I also don't have any problems with xchat v1.8.10-r1.. tried that /msg 
<tab> and.. no problems whatsoever..
I'm using fluxbox. (no kde here)

 emerge info
Portage 2.0.46-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1500+
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx 
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib 
gdbm berkdb slang readline svga tcltk sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd 
imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla cdr X gtk2 sse java gnome -kde 
-alsa -cups -arts"
ARCH="x86"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config 
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
JDK_HOME="/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01"
JAVA_HOME="/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uevora.pt/gentoo"

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2002-12-22 10:56:06 UTC]

xchat doesnt interact with kde at all (it doesnt depend on any of its libs). If
you want to debug a build btw i always add 'inherit debug' to the top of the
ebuild, works very well.

Can you run it in another environment (just basic X with twm or something) and
see if the problem persists ?

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2003-01-31 11:32:38 UTC]

no more traffic closing.

and try with latest xchat-1.8.11 in portage

[Comment 7 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:21:44 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 8 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:26:36 UTC]

db fix