Zenity freezes

[JD]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2012/12/31 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
> > In a terminal (things in <> are instructions, don't type those…):
> > $ cat > Musicians
> > FALSE
> > First Name
> > FALSE
> > Second Name
> > FALSE
> > Third Name
> > <Press Ctrl+d>
> > $ zenity --list --title "Select musicians" --text="Some text"
> > --column="Select" --column="Musician" --checklist --separator="\n"
> > --height=480 --width=370 < Musicians
> >
> > The dialogue opens. Now hit OK or Cancel.
> >
> > Now, sometimes this works, but most of the time the dialogue freeze.
> > The terminal shows the following:
> >
> > (zenity:3629): GLib-WARNING **:
> > /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting
> > flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)
> >
> >
> > (zenity:3629): GLib-WARNING **:
> > /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting
> > flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)
> >
> >
> > (zenity:3629): GLib-WARNING **:
> > /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting
> > flags for FD: Bad file descriptor (9)
> >
> > and so on.
> >
> > Ctrl+c in the terminal cancels the dialogue.
> >
> > So, what is this? User error or Zenity error? If user error, what did
> > I do wrong? This worked in Ubuntu 10.10, at least better than in
> > Ubuntu 12.04. I think I remember that it freeze in Ubuntu 10.10 too,
> > but not almost every time, like it does in Ubuntu 12.04.
> >
> >
> Seems to be a Zenity bug. I installed YAD (Yet Another Dialogue) from
> their PPA and I ran exactly the same command:
> $ yad --list --title "Select musicians" --text="Some text"
> --column="Select" --column="Musician" --checklist --separator="\n"
> --height=480 --width=370 < Musicians
>
> Worked perfectly.
> I guess I need to file a bug report then…
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
>

If you are filing a bug, it would be extremely helpful to include the
strace output files I suggested.
It will help the devs zero in on exactly what caused the problem.
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