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

[Phillip Pi]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:54:01AM +0200, Csv4Me2 wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 0.109 downloads the group, no problemo.
> And you can scroll thru it without any complications or crashes.
> So, problem solved ! (?)

Interesting. OK, must be a Pan. I just upgraded my Kernel to 2.6.17-K2. Still 
same! Ugh!