When running spim it produces some output (copyright, version, etc) then halts, at 100% cpu and not allowing the user to enter any input. When running xspim the UI starts, but it blanks and consumes 100% cpu as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge spim 7.3 2. run xspim 3. or spim Actual Results: program hangs, and consumes 100% cpu. Expected Results: Working software. This exact version of spim on a very similar computer, but on 64 bit AMD works fine. I was able to manually compile and run spim 7.4 from the official with no problems. Maybe masking 7.3 for x86 and bumping to 7.4 is a good idea. There have been other complaints of people having this problem on other distros: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spim/+bug/63904 Read there that the 7.3-r1 release fixes this. "Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data."
It's unclear what your intention with this bug is. Do you want to have spim bumped to version 7.4 or report a bug against version 7.3? If you want to do the latter, please post your "emerge --info".
(In reply to comment #1) > It's unclear what your intention with this bug is. Do you want to have spim > bumped to version 7.4 or report a bug against version 7.3? If you want to do > the latter, please post your "emerge --info". > Don't really care either way. To me the whole point of emerge foo is giving the user a working copy of the software. I didn't get that with spim, so I filed a bug. I'll post my emerge --info, but I it doesn't mean I want the bug to get fixed in a specific way. I noticed this bug was changed from critical to normal. I agree that this isn't a critical bug, but critical is labelled a "if a program crashes it's a critical bug". Since spim consistently crashes I labelled it critical. Could somebody tell me how a program has to crash so that it falls under the "program crashes" section?
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(In reply to comment #2) > I noticed this bug was changed from critical to normal. I agree that this isn't > a critical bug, but critical is labelled a "if a program crashes it's a > critical bug". Since spim consistently crashes I labelled it critical. Could > somebody tell me how a program has to crash so that it falls under the "program > crashes" section? I changed it to normal as spim is no system-critical package. Maybe the description for Severity needs some update. Well, concerning the version bump vs. bug fixing, let's see what the maintainer thinks is the better solution. But as there's a newer version of spim I guess he will simply bump the package. Thanks for the report anyway :) Reassigning to maintainer.
Moving to maintainer-needed@ since compnerd left Gentoo (#71985).
I've added 7.4 to the tree, please test. Should fix this issue.
