Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

[Phillip Pi]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:09:14AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Phillip Pi <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 26 Aug
> 2006 02:02:10 -0700:
> 
> > In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on news.giganews.com server,
> > it appears that specific threads or something is hard crashing my X server
> > with a black screen and locked video card in KDE v3.5 (Gnome didn't crash,
> > but showed corrupted texts) with Pan v0.14.2.9 in this specific binary
> > newsgroup.
> 
> I'm going to be subscribing to newshosting this weekend (waiting to see if
> someone wants to sponsor me and get the kickback ATM, anybody here?  I may
> have subscribed time you reply, but worth a shot) and may be able to try
> it.  Any idea the relative date range causing the issue?

Try downloading about 30K posts. I did 15K last night.

 
> > You can read the details at
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=975183 ...
> > 
> > Has anyone seen or have this problem? I am not planning to upgrade to the
> > newer Pan version since it doesn't have all the features I use in the
> > older one.
> 
> That's the first time I've seen anything similar reported in the pan
> groups/lists.
> 
> It's up to you whether you upgrade or not, of course, but you
> realize the old code is now dead and not likely to be updated or bug-fixed
> any further, right?  As such, while confirming the bug as a pan bug or

I understand. Until Pan has most of the features, I will use the old one.


> tracing it to something else (maybe NVidia since you appear to be
> running their closed drivers and it certainly affects video) might be
> worthwhile, spending too much time tracing bugs in the old code simply
> won't be.
> 
> FWIW, I was previously suggesting folks stick with old-pan for text or if
> they didn't need any of the new features.  With the last couple betas,
> 0.108 and 0.109, however, that's changed.  The new version has all my most
> used features for text anyway, and is enough better for binaries I'm
> getting back into them (thus the newshosting thing I mentioned above).
> 
> For categorizing, I'm using the $PAN_HOME environmental variable, with a
> script setting it to one dir for my text groups, a second for binaries,
> and a third for my test config (which allows me separate settings
> appropriate to each, but also using symlinks, to use the same file where
> appropriate, as with the accels.txt file).  That keeps displayed
> subscribed groups to a manageable level, one of the big requests.  The
> only other other one I still miss is the ability to actually kill (as in
> delete) kill-scored posts, and mark-as-read low/negative scored posts (so
> they'd be hidden by default, something I did in old-pan using rules.
> 
> That said, as I said, it's up to you when to upgrade and I definitely
> understand not wanting to do so until new-pan is out of beta and into
> stable, anyway, which it isn't yet.  Thus, at least trying to work thru
> any issues in old-pan continues to be worthwhile.  I'll see if anything
> strange comes up when I visit the group after subscribing to newshosting
> (Cox's servers are crap ATM and have been most of the time for months, for
> binaries of any size, tho std jpeg size bins seem to be semi-decent.)