Debian Bug report logs - #851052
abiword: Work area flickers up to 30 thimes on every Charachter input

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jo <jo.drescher@web.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: abiword: Work area flickers up to 30 thimes on every Charachter input

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:18:49 +0100

Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.2-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After starting, the work area flickers up to 30 times. The flickering repeats itself with 
every character input and moust mouse actions. It seems that the upper part of the
work area gets redrawn 30 times in about half a minute.

We could verify this behavior on an Intel core duo, an AMD E350 as well as in
a Virtual Box intallation.
I'm using Xfce4

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii  abiword-common      3.0.2-2
ii  gsfonts             1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.3
ii  libabiword-3.0      3.0.2-2
ii  libc6               2.24-8
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.10.14-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.108-1
ii  libgcc1             1:6.2.1-5
ii  libgcrypt20         1.7.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.50.2-2
ii  libgnutls30         3.5.7-3
ii  libgoffice-0.10-10  0.10.32-1.1
ii  libgsf-1-114        1.14.41-1
ii  libgtk-3-0          3.22.5-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo     1:1.5.1-2
ii  libloudmouth1-0     1.5.3-2
ii  libots0             0.5.0-2.3
ii  libpng16-16         1.6.26-6
ii  librdf0             1.0.17-1.1
ii  libreadline7        7.0-1
ii  librevenge-0.0-0    0.0.4-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1        2.56.0-2
ii  libstdc++6          6.2.1-5
ii  libtelepathy-glib0  0.24.1-1.1
ii  libtidy5            1:5.2.0-2
ii  libwmf0.2-7         0.2.8.4-10.6
ii  libwpd-0.10-10      0.10.1-5
ii  libwpg-0.3-3        0.3.1-3
ii  libxml2             2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.8.dfsg-4

Versions of packages abiword recommends:
ii  abiword-plugin-grammar              3.0.2-2
ii  aspell-de [aspell-dictionary]       20161207-1
ii  aspell-de-1901 [aspell-dictionary]  1:2-31
ii  fonts-liberation                    1:1.07.4-2
ii  poppler-utils                       0.48.0-2

abiword suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 851052@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Awtul <awtulawtul@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <851052@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: abiword: Work area flickers up to 30 thimes on every Charachter input

Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:28:05 -0500

Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #851052

Hi,

This bug is reproducible in real hardware (Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz) as well
as in two virtualbox installations, both Debian unstable.

I think that the severity "should" be changed to "serious/grave" because with such flickering
Abiword is unusable.

Regards,

Awtul

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii  abiword-common      3.0.2-2
ii  gsfonts             1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.3
ii  libabiword-3.0      3.0.2-2
ii  libc6               2.24-9
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.10.14-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.108-2
ii  libgcc1             1:6.3.0-5
ii  libgcrypt20         1.7.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.50.2-2
ii  libgnutls30         3.5.8-2
ii  libgoffice-0.10-10  0.10.32-1.1
ii  libgsf-1-114        1.14.41-1
ii  libgtk-3-0          3.22.7-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo     1:1.5.1-2
ii  libloudmouth1-0     1.5.3-2
ii  libots0             0.5.0-2.3
ii  libpng16-16         1.6.28-1
ii  librdf0             1.0.17-1.1
ii  libreadline7        7.0-2
ii  librevenge-0.0-0    0.0.4-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1        2.56.0-2
ii  libstdc++6          6.3.0-5
ii  libtelepathy-glib0  0.24.1-1.1
ii  libtidy5            1:5.2.0-2
ii  libwmf0.2-7         0.2.8.4-10.6
ii  libwpd-0.10-10      0.10.1-5
ii  libwpg-0.3-3        0.3.1-3
ii  libxml2             2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages abiword recommends:
ii  abiword-plugin-grammar         3.0.2-2
ii  aspell-es [aspell-dictionary]  1.11-14
ii  fonts-liberation               1:1.07.4-2
ii  poppler-utils                  0.48.0-2

abiword suggests no packages.

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Message #17 received at 851052@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: 851052@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Awtul <awtulawtul@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: abiword: Work area flickers up to 30 thimes on every Charachter input

Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 09:05:52 +0800

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Control: severity -1 important

On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:28:05 -0500 Awtul wrote:

> This bug is reproducible in real hardware (Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz) as well
> as in two virtualbox installations, both Debian unstable.

I can't reproduce it, so it isn't happening to every user.

> I think that the severity "should" be changed to "serious/grave" because with such flickering
> Abiword is unusable.

The Debian abiword package is orphaned so the only effect of this
severity change will be to remove the package from stretch.

Since the issue appears not always happen, I'm downgrading it.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Message #24 received at 851052@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Víctor Martínez <vicm3@janus.ajusco.upn.mx>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <851052@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: abiword: Work area flickers up to 30 thimes on every Charachter input

Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:53:24 -0500

Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #851052

On Sun, 05 Feb 2017 09:05:52 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:

>I can't reproduce it, so it isn't happening to every user.
>
>
>The Debian abiword package is orphaned so the only effect of this
>severity change will be to remove the package from stretch.
>
>Since the issue appears not always happen, I'm downgrading it.
>

I can reproduce, in fact is present on my daily use systems, a Compaq Mini CQ10-1100, Dell Optiplex 7040, Acer Notebook and home constructed PC (AMD XII 450, Radeon, Gigabyte MOBO), in all these I got this behaviour, also something that begin to think maybe related is the usage of LXDE/Openbox that is present on all my machines.

Also Lubuntu seems to suffer similar problem (again LXDE) [1],[2] and at one time was present on Red Hat [3] and also in Arch [4], sadly reading the Arch report I think maybe is a regression problem...  searching directly with abisource found [5] that is assigned and open... so looks like upstream has not a fix currently.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/808850/why-are-abiword-documents-flickering-since-the-upgrade-to-lubuntu-16
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1574278
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287835
[4] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46659
[5] https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii  abiword-common      3.0.2-2
ii  gsfonts             1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.3
ii  libabiword-3.0      3.0.2-2
ii  libc6               2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.10.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.108-2
ii  libgcc1             1:6.3.0-18
ii  libgcrypt20         1.7.6-2+deb9u1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.50.3-2
ii  libgnutls30         3.5.8-5+deb9u2
ii  libgoffice-0.10-10  0.10.32-1.1
ii  libgsf-1-114        1.14.41-1
ii  libgtk-3-0          3.22.11-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo     1:1.5.1-2
ii  libloudmouth1-0     1.5.3-2
ii  libots0             0.5.0-2.3
ii  libpng16-16         1.6.28-1
ii  librdf0             1.0.17-1.1
ii  libreadline7        7.0-3
ii  librevenge-0.0-0    0.0.4-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1        2.56.0-2
ii  libstdc++6          6.3.0-18
ii  libtelepathy-glib0  0.24.1-1.1
ii  libtidy5            1:5.2.0-2
ii  libwmf0.2-7         0.2.8.4-10.6
ii  libwpd-0.10-10      0.10.1-5
ii  libwpg-0.3-3        0.3.1-3
ii  libxml2             2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages abiword recommends:
ii  abiword-plugin-grammar         3.0.2-2
ii  aspell-en [aspell-dictionary]  2016.11.20-0-0.1
ii  fonts-liberation               1:1.07.4-2
ii  poppler-utils                  0.48.0-2

abiword suggests no packages.

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Message #29 received at 851052@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>

To: 851052@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fix flickering

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:28:26 +1000

Extra text insertion cursor (caret) blinks were scheduled.

Each blink invalidated the window and redrew it.

I've submitted a patch upstream on 13791.  I'm interested to hear if
it fixes it for others.

http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1diDDl.txt

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/

Message #34 received at 851052-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

To: 851052-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#851052 tagged as pending

Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:47:10 +0000

tag 851052 pending
--

We believe that the bug #851052 you reported has been fixed in the Git
repository. You can see the commit message below and/or inspect the
commit contents at:

    http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/abiword.git/diff/?id=ed6262c

(This message was generated automatically by
 'git-post-receive-tag-pending-commitmsg' hook).
---
commit ed6262c8f43e2d1e7c29741bdae0e2e8235eb714
Author: Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@ubuntu.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 30 16:45:41 2017 -0400

    Fix flickering
    
    Closes: #851052
    Closes: #848838
    
    Note that this doesn't work with Wayland

Message #39 received at 851052-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

To: 851052-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#851052: fixed in abiword 3.0.2-4

Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:36:12 +0000

Source: abiword
Source-Version: 3.0.2-4

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
abiword, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 851052@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> (supplier of updated abiword package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Urgency: high
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