[Gambas-user] Gambas IDE in open project scanning entire home directory

[richard terry]

On 24/05/14 22:31, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 24/05/2014 14:29, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
>> Le 24/05/2014 14:22, richard terry a écrit :
>>> when using the IDE, gambas takes an extraordinary long time to open the
>>> "Open Project" dialog
>>>
>>> using "strace -e stat gambas3" I can see gambas3 is doing something
>>> rather strange: it's stating every file recursively throughout the home
>>> directory, which on my machine takes an unusably long time due to tens
>>> of thousands of files (i.e. we have given up waiting for the dialog box
>>> to hold, and have had to create anew user on the system with the minimum
>>> files in their home directory)
>>>
>>> this is the same on two systems (mine and Ian Haywood's) gambas 3.5.3
>>> and 3.5.2, Linux Mint 14 (Nadia)
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> this is standard stuff:
>>>
>>> stat("/etc/cups/ppd/HL-5240-series.ppd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
>>> st_size=22415, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/cups/ppd/HL-5240-series.ppd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
>>> st_size=22415, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf",
>>> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6234746, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/lmcsc10.pfb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
>>> st_size=116427, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/usr/share/gambas3/examples", 0x7fffb1cc8ba0) = -1 ENOENT (No such
>>> file or directory)
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
>>>
>>> ---> and here's were the insanity starts
>>>
>>> stat("/home/richard/mybackup", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.texmf-var", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/may14-2-1.txt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
>>> st_size=17265, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/My_Video", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.lyx", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/tempproject", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/pgadmin.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35895,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.thunderbird", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/Ms-Joan-Blogss_workcover.pf.pdf",
>>> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=160724, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/test.aux", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...})
>>> = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/plan.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=85230,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.project", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1144,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/more_create_db_bugs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
>>> st_size=1568, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/plan2.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=85247,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.mplayer", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.ICEauthority", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600,
>>> st_size=129458, ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/.googleearth", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096,
>>> ...}) = 0
>>> stat("/home/richard/test-description.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
>>> st_size=2589, ...}) = 0
>>>
>> Strange...
>>
>> Can you run the IDE inside itself to debug it, and break while it
>> browses your directory to see where is the code that does that?
>>
> OK, I think I can reproduce it. Apparently, not the entire home is
> browsed, but only the first level of directories stored as bookmarks...
>
> Can you confirm?
>
We deleted the config file and it still scans the entire directory ad 
nauseum........