RE: [Pan-users] Re: Pan freezing on SuSE

[Derek]

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From: Duncan [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 12:46 AM
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Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Pan freezing on SuSE

David Robertson posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below,  on
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:06:09 +0300:

> Are there any SuSE 9.1 or 9.2 users out there who have had problems with 
> Pan locking up randomly? This may not even be a Pan error but I am not 
> sure how to go about investigating. Starting from a terminal doesn't 
> give any clues or error messages.It's a default installation, using 
> pan-20041213-0.1

> It could be the gtk+ 2.6.x from about a week back in the archive, if it
> usually happens when you try to post, and it causes PAN to eat 100% of the
> CPU on a single CPU until killed.  The problem is PAN is trying to pop up
> a warning query (line too long, too much quoted text, top posting, etc)
> but there's a bug in unpatched gtk+ 2.6.x versions that causes an endless
> loop instead.

> There's an available patch if you wish to compile it from source, or see
> if there's an updated version of gtk+ 2.6.x available to you (in testing
> or whatever), or downgrade to a 2.4.x version, which works fine, here.

> If that's not it...  From a terminal, run "pan --help".  That'll give you
> a bunch of debug options you can try.  If that still doesn't help, there's
> more, but it's likely the gtk+ thing above as that has hit many of us, so
> I'll skip that, for now.

Hi, 

I am having this same problem and I noticed that it was always lock up, just
as it was going to finish downloading the headers from a newsgroup.

Has this problem been fixed? Switch to a new version?

Thanks, Derek



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