[Bug 45335] Kdevelop3 eats all resources and freezes system when closing /usr/include/GL/glew.h

[Joseph Garvin]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdevelop3

Kdevelop3 will always crash when closing /usr/include/GL/glew.h. To
reproduce, first make sure you have the glew library installed:

sudo apt-get install libglew-dev libglew1

Then:

1. Open kdevelop
2. File->Open
3. Browse to /usr/include/GL/ and choose glew.h.
4. Scroll from the top of the file to the bottom of the file.
5. Click the red close X in upper right corner (closing all of Kdevelop won't trigger the bug)

Now the contents of the file should disappear, but not its tab. Kdevelop
will now be unresponsive and start to eat all of your CPU and RAM, and
eventually freeze the system. The only solution I know of is to quickly
Ctrl+Alt+F1 and type 'kill kdevelop3' into the console.

The location of glew.h seems to be relevant -- I tried opening a copy of
it inside my folder inside Kdevelop and closing it didn't trigger the
bug. Maybe it's trying to write to glew.h when it closes, and runs into
trouble because it only has user permissions?

** Affects: kdevelop3 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

-- 
Kdevelop3 eats all resources and freezes system when closing /usr/include/GL/glew.h
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45335