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 09:34:19AM -0700, Phillip Pi wrote:
> 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.

NVIDIA poster told me to collect logs in my NVIDIA forum thread. I gathered the 
newsgroup thread 
datas:

The newsgroup threads (not even reading a thread -- just the list) that crashes 
are (copied and 
pasted):
Subject: 
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cablebox_->DVD._Later_DVD->MP4_using_Handbrake_Mpeg-4_Video_/_AAC_Audio_,_FFMEG,_400kpbs_AVB,_2-pass_encoding,_22050_Sample_Rate,_128kbps_Bitrate.=0D=0DParts_3_and_4.=0D=0Dhttp://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/index.html=0D=0D=0D=0DThis_intimate,_heart-rending_portrait_of_New_Orleans_in_the_wake_of_the_destruction_tells_the_heartbreaking_personal_stories_of_those_who_endured_this_harrowing_ordeal_and_survived_to_tell_the_tale_of_misery,_despair_and_triumph._=0D=0DThe_film_also_looks_at_a_community_that_has_been_through_hell_and_back,_surviving_death,_devastation_and_disease_at_every_turn._Yet,_somehow,_amidst_the_ruins,_the_people_of_New_Orleans_are_finding_new_hope_and_strength_as_the_city_rises_from_the_ashes,_buoyed_by_their_own_resilience_and_a_rich_cultural_legacy._=0D=0D"New_Orleans_is_fighting_for_its_life,"_says_Lee._"These_are_not_people_who_will_disappear_quietly_-_they're_accustomed_to_hardship_and_slights,_and_they'll_fight_for_New_Orleans._This_film_will_showcase_theFrom:
         
spike
Newsgroups:   alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies
Date:         Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:02:33 -0700

I think that ISO thing is making it my whole X server crash hard. Is Pan 
supposed to read this 
correctly?

  
> > > 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.)

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