Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 234404
Cannot manage big listboxes with perl-Tk.
Last modified: 2008-01-06 20:29:20 EST
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.
Created attachment 151170 [details] Perl program which crashes.
Is this using perl-Tk from Extras or a locally compiled module?
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
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.
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.
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.
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'
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'
Hi, I donwloaded the package for Fedora 7. My perl programs work much better now. Thank you! You can close the bug.
Thanks for the response. Bug will be closed once the package goes live.
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.
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.