Bug 234404 - Cannot manage big listboxes with perl-Tk.
Summary: Cannot manage big listboxes with perl-Tk.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andreas Bierfert
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-28 21:30 UTC by Pierre Lacaze
Modified: 2008-01-07 01:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 804.028-1.fc8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-01-07 01:29:20 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Perl program which crashes. (733 bytes, application/x-perl)
2007-03-28 21:30 UTC, Pierre Lacaze
no flags Details

Description Pierre Lacaze 2007-03-28 21:30:06 UTC
Description of problem:
Try to execute a little perl program (in attachment), creating a listbox of 200
entries, then try to select at the same time these entries. It fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 7 test 2

How reproducible:
perl bugperl.pl


Actual results:
A new listbox windows is displayed, but it disappears immediately, and the
following error is displayed:

selection conversion left too many bytes unconverted
Abandon


Expected results:
Under windows (ActiveState Perl, + TK804 library), there is no error, and the
listbox window is displayed properly. 


Additional info: see attachment. If you replace the 200 in the loop by 30, it
works well. 
If you comment the 
$lbox->selectionSet(0,'end');
line, it works well too.

Comment 1 Pierre Lacaze 2007-03-28 21:30:06 UTC
Created attachment 151170 [details]
Perl program which crashes.

Comment 2 Steven Pritchard 2007-03-29 15:21:56 UTC
Is this using perl-Tk from Extras or a locally compiled module?

Comment 3 Pierre Lacaze 2007-03-29 19:29:27 UTC
I did not compile perl-Tk myself. Here is a yum info output.

Name   : perl-Tk
Arch   : i386
Version: 804.027
Release: 10.fc6
Size   : 6.7 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: Perl Graphical User Interface ToolKit

Name   : perl
Arch   : i386
Epoch  : 4
Version: 5.8.8
Release: 15.fc7
Size   : 28 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: The Perl programming language


Comment 4 Andreas Bierfert 2007-04-01 07:39:20 UTC
Hm I suspect that perl-Tk should be rebuild because on FC6 it works without a
problem. Will push a rebuild now. Please get back to me if it works afterwards.

Comment 5 Pierre Lacaze 2007-04-02 18:40:06 UTC
Hello,

I do not know if you have pushed the rebuild (yum update perl-Tk gives nothing
new). But I downloaded the sources from the Debian site
http://packages.debian.org/stable/source/perl-tk (file perl-tk_800.025.orig),
compiled them, and the bug has disappeared. 



Comment 6 Pierre Lacaze 2007-04-04 19:00:21 UTC
Hello,

I unsinstalled my self-compiled package, and installed perl-Tk via yum instead.
Now, the release is 804.027-11.fc7.

On my computer, the bug happens again, just like before. In fact, I think the
bug already happened in FC6, so I suppose a rebuild is not enough to solve the
bug. We should use the latest sources. 



Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:34:55 UTC
perl-Tk-804.028-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl-Tk'

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:35:55 UTC
perl-Tk-804.028-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl-Tk'

Comment 9 Pierre Lacaze 2008-01-03 20:35:35 UTC
Hi,

I donwloaded the package for Fedora 7. My perl programs work much better now.
Thank you! You can close the bug.



Comment 10 Andreas Bierfert 2008-01-03 22:47:15 UTC
Thanks for the response. Bug will be closed once the package goes live.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-01-07 01:17:58 UTC
perl-Tk-804.028-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-01-07 01:29:16 UTC
perl-Tk-804.028-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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