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Bug 769475

Summary: Calling the pycairo function Context::text_extents() causes a MemoryError exception to be raised
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Brock.Erwin
Component: pycairoAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.2CC: mpoole, ngalvin, tpelka
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Brock.Erwin 2011-12-20 23:27:08 UTC
Description of problem:

Calling certain python cairo functions causes a MemoryError.  Context::text_extents() is one of them.  text_path() is another.  An easy way to reproduce this bug is to run the "warpedtext.py" example program shipped with the "pycairo" package.

$ /usr/share/doc/pycairo-1.8.6/examples/warpedtext.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/doc/pycairo-1.8.6/examples/warpedtext.py", line 71, in <module>
    ctx.text_path("pycairo - " + "spam " * 5)
MemoryError



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pycairo-1.8.6-2.1.el6.x86_64


How reproducible: happens every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the "/usr/share/doc/pycairo-1.8.6/examples/warpedtext.py" script.


Expected results:  The script should work and not throw a MemoryError.

Comment 3 Suzanne Logcher 2012-02-14 23:25:17 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2012-07-10 06:35:55 UTC
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2012-07-11 01:57:42 UTC
This request was erroneously removed from consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which is currently under development.  This request will be evaluated for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2012-09-07 05:19:23 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 9 Andrius Benokraitis 2013-10-07 01:34:08 UTC
This Bugzilla has been reviewed by Red Hat and is not planned on being addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and will be closed. If this bug is critical to production systems, please contact your Red Hat support representative and provide sufficient business justification.