[Reportbug-maint] Bug#531672: reportbug: hangs when called from debian-bug.el on xserver-xorg-video-intel package

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Marcus,

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:00, Marcus Better <marcus at better.se> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.4
> Severity: important
>
> Trying to report a bug with debian-bug from Emacs against the
> xserver-xorg-video-intel package, the reportbug process hangs with
> Emacs saying "Getting package information from reportbug...".
>
> reportbug then hogs a lot of CPU but does not finish.

how big are X logs? as I can see from [1] it tries to embed the full
log in the bug report, and that can cause problem.

[1] /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-video-intel/script

If you remove (reduce) the log (dimensions), do you have more luck?

> This happens consistently with the xserver-xorg-video-intel package,
> but it works normally with other packages. Also when running reportbug
> from the command line, I can report bugs against
> xserver-xorg-video-intel too.

just to clarify: you *are able* to use reportbug against
xserver-xorg-video-intel from the command line bug *not* from inside
emacs?

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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