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

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On Saturday 26 August 2006 23:51, Phillip Pi wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > .... <snip>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm running KDE 3.4 on a 6800 GT and still using pan 0.14.91.
> > I felt adventurous and did load the newsgroup from gignews as mentioned
> > by you.  PAN crashed badly but X stayed up :-)
> >
> > KDE: 3.4.2
> > X org: 6.8.2
> > Nvidia: 6800 gt, driver 8762
> > Kernel 2.6.17.11
> > Distro: slack 10.2
> > Newsserver giganews.com
> >
> > ------------
> > I was able to get some gdb output, pointing to a specific article:
>
> Nice! What about the newer Pan versions (v0.109)? Do they crash too?
>
> Mine still crashes hard. Interesting. I tried something else. Instead of
> using page down to get to the probematic thread, I used my down arrow key.
> If I scroll down one by one (fast or slow), no crash. It seems page down to
> get a chunk make the crash. See if your Pan still crashes if you use arrow
> keys.
>
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0.109 downloads the group, no problemo.
And you can scroll thru it without any complications or crashes.
So, problem solved ! (?)

C