xspim hangs with a blank UI, eating the CPU

Ubuntu Edgy
spim: 7.2.1-1

A Babelfish translation gives `the program is disapointed,' which doesn't really fit the context... However, I've tested xspim, and it seems to just hang forever with a somewhat blank UI, eating the CPU. Is that what you meant?

YES

Same problem..
Sometimes appears text in the buttons, but they don't work...But usually I get the screen like the one above... And the process uses about 80-95% of CPU...

I subscribe here too.

Just like the above said before, when xspim is run it renders a window without buttons or, with buttons that dont work, thus disabling the use of this application.

Here are some links to screenshots published on imageshack.us:

with buttons: http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1042/1jz6.png
without buttons: http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1117/2mx8.png

This application is somewhat important to people studying Computer Science and related courses on Universities, as some disciplines require it for their Mips classes. ( my case )

Hope it gets fixed really soon!

Thanks!

same problem here

This will be fixed in Feisty with the sync of 7.3-1.

Fixed in Feisty.

I THINK THIS POLICY IS NOT THE WAY UBUNTU SHOULD WORK!!..
IMO if you have a Long Term Support distribution (6.06 LTS), it has to got the long term support, if not that's only a false image that users of Ubuntu got, and we've got a clone of windows, that gave up of their O.S's when they launch new ones. So, at least, I think the spim package of edgy, should be substitued, in the repositories, by de dapper one, that is working. This was the solution I used, to avoid bigger problems, because feisty is not yet stable.

Thanks.

Pardon? You want the fix to be backported to Dapper and/or Edgy? That can be done, if you wish.

I can't undestand what's the point of having a package in the repositories, that has a confirmed bug. So I suggested to downgrade the package to dapper's version.

It was only a modest suggestion...

We can't downgrade packages in the archives so we backport fixes from the development version to fix bugs in the stable release. We can try to do that in this case as William has said.

Also bear in mind that spim is in the Multiverse repo so it is community maintained and non-free. We try to do the best we can but have pretty limited resources.

I realize that you are frustrated with this bug, but please try not to use such inflammatory language. It's really pretty counterproductive. We really attempt to release packages that are bug-free but we aren't able to do in-depth testing of every package before release. We first attempt to fix the bug in Feisty as it is easier to do and we aren't so concerned with introducing other bugs with the fix. Once we are confident we've isolated the fix we backport it to a stable release if it's critical. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for the process.

Sorry, It wasn't my intention to be rude or counterproductive, at all. I've got the problem solved, for now, until Feisty is launched.

I understand your hard work, especially against non-free packs.And I recongnize it, that's why I use UBUNTU.

I only criticized the bug so hard, because it seems to me that it wasn't give much importance at the beginning...

But keep your hard and GREAT work...

thks

I'm getting the same exact problem with Koala. I'm running it the university cluster computers, with the following specs:

Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31.4-secfix2 (x86_64)
8-core Opteron 2384 (SB X6240) ; 31.49 GB RAM, 10.00 GB swap

I run my code and xspim goes blank and continually trashes the terminal with memory write statements to the point where I can't kill it at all. Blindly typing "pkill -u [username] -x xspim" does nothing. (This is version 6.5, by the way, if that matters. I can't use a newer version because I don't have the permissions to do so.)

6.5 is not packaged in Ubuntu, so please don't report bugs on it in Ubuntu's
bug tracker.