tags 317249 + confirmed
thanks
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:17AM -0400, C. Andy Martin wrote:
> Alexander Sack - Debian Bugmail wrote:
>
> >I clone this bug, because it contains info on the display issue of
> >long lines. Further, I set the original bug to
> >unreproducible. Nevertheless, I see the output and for me it won't be
> >a suprise if drawing text in such a way could lead to some segfault
> >et al in some special situation.
> >
> >
> >- Alexander
> >
> >
> >
>
> I still find this bug fairly easy to reproduce. Most recently, I used a
> script to send an email with about 65000 characters in the subject line:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ >tt.tt; printf "A Really Long Subject: " >> tt.tt; for
> ((i=0;i<65000;i++)); do printf "X" >> tt.tt; done
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vi tt.tt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mail -s "$(<tt.tt)" andy
> This is a big subject, non?
> -Andy
> .
> Cc:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> I then did the following actions until thunderbird crashed (it took
> about 30 seconds):
> Highlight pieces of the garbled subject name. Drag the higlight to the
> right (the garbled text will scroll), drag to the left, try copying the
> hilighted text.
> Next, use the little [-] box next to the subject to shrink the headers
> to one line. Repeat the dragging exercise. Sometimes it will crash here.
> Now, click the [+] to enlarge the header block. Repeat the dragging
> exercise. Here is usually where things crash for me.
>
> While dragging, I often pull the mouse all the way to the right to
> increase the scrolling speed of the text, or I pull it up high, or back
> left then right repeatedly, varying things up a bit. Usually this
> results in a crash in about 30 seconds, following the expand/contract
> procedure above.
>
> This problem may be exacerbated by particular fonts or X servers. I'm
> using a vncserver as the X server (3.3.7-7), and I believe I'm using
> standard fonts (I don't have any themes installed), but I could very
> well be wrong because I'm ignorant about how fonts work in X.
>
> -Andy
>
- Alexander
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