Bug 466894

Summary: meld hangs on showing two files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mads Kiilerich <mads>
Component: meldAssignee: Brian Pepple <bdpepple>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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input files showing the problem - nothing speciel, but they seems to trigger a case I haven't seen before none

Description Mads Kiilerich 2008-10-14 12:01:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
When running
meld Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log.old
(with the files from the attachment) then it hangs "Computing differences" for far too long time.

It is a GUI tool; it shouldn't spend that much time searching for a perfect diff. Or perhaps it is just a bug for this particular input.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
meld-1.2-2.fc10.noarch

Additional info:
diff and kdiff3 have no problem with the files.
Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2008-10-14 12:03:28 UTC 
Created attachment 320287 [details]
input files showing the problem - nothing speciel, but they seems to trigger a case I haven't seen before
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:51:23 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 3 Mads Kiilerich 2009-03-06 14:45:36 UTC 
Same problem with meld-1.2.1-3.fc11.noarch

I guess someone should file it upstream ;-)
Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 09:46:57 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 5 Mads Kiilerich 2010-01-13 22:41:04 UTC 
Works fine with meld-1.3.0-2.fc12.noarch