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 > ___________________________________________ > Look Good, Feel Good www.healthiest.co.za > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
