Showstopper bug in "kate" -- More Info.

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have come across a showstopper bug in kate. It can eat all my
> remaining HDD space. A normal user wouldn't know how to get out.
> 
> Sorry, I am not able to currently contact bugzilla to check if
> it is already in there. Please, someone check and feed it in.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> * Open a text file in "kate".
> * Try to print it.
> * In the "kprinter" dialog, check "preview" option as "on".
> * Choose any printing system (I checked with CUPS and "external program").
> * On "Text Settings" tab, check the "Print Syntax Guide" option as "on"
>   plus "Print Line Numbers" option as "on"
> 
> You'll notice the printfile not being previewed and kate hanging.
> The dialog window appears "Printing document: <name of text file>.
> Generating print data: page x" with a "Close" button which doesn't
> work...
> 
> There is an eternal loop which writes line after line of
> 
> "Kate (Document): -- Skipping garbage, line: 13 start: 3 end: 0 !?"
> 
> until the HDD is full, into my "$HOME/.xsession-errors" (or, on my
> other system, in my $HOME/.X.err") file. The only way out is to
> kill the "kdeinit: kate" process.
> 
> The one system is ~10 days old CVS, the other is from last night
> (including new qt-copy) [and currently I can't get the freshly
> updated qt-copy to compile.... :-(  ]
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt
> 
> Oh, BTW, I think the new extensions for the printing options in
> KDE's text editors are beautiful. I think all developers who want
> to print code occasionally will like it. These boxes and headers
> and footers and colors and the quickhelp for the supported tags
> and the layout options and the syntax highlighting are looking
> beoutifull. At LWE everybody who saw it liked it very much.
> .
> And, the "%U" makro doesn't work for me. It should print the full
> URL of the document, but only prints "%U" verbally...

Kate works for me allright for all text files with up to 12 lines.
I created this simple text file with 13 lines

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
1
2
3

When I print it with the "preview", the "line numbering" and the
"print syntax guide" options on, I get a similar effect as described
above. The dialog counts now up the pages (currently it is at
762), while in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" I now get the lines:

Kate (Document): Starting new page, 23759 lines up to now.
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Generating print data: page 458
Kate (Document): Starting new page, 23811 lines up to now.
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Generating print data: page 459
Kate (Document): Starting new page, 23863 lines up to now.
kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Generating print data: page 460

counting upward forever...

Cheers,
Kurt