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 06:47:50PM -0700, 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!
> 
> FYI. I switched video card (BFG vs. ASUS), and still reproduced the problem. 
> So, it doesn't seem 
> like a hardware issue. 

Someone told me to try the default nv driver thatr comes with X.org. So, I 
changed Driver 
"nvidia" to Driver "nv". I retested, and no X crash. I did get an one second 
pause when saw the 
newsgroup threads causing the crash.

Now, I am thinking there is a NVIDIA driver problem or maybe incompatibility 
with Pan 
v0.14.2.91, KDE v3.5.4, and xorg files:

# dpkg -l | grep ^ii |grep xorg              
ii  xorg                              7.0.23                      X.Org X 
Window System
ii  xorg-dev                          7.0.23                      the X.Org X 
Window System 
development librar
ii  xserver-xorg                      7.0.23                      the X.Org X 
server
ii  xserver-xorg-core                 1.0.2-10                    X.Org X 
server -- core server
ii  xserver-xorg-dev                  1.0.2-10                    X.Org X 
server -- development 
files
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all            7.0.23                      the X.Org X 
server -- input 
driver metapacka
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev          1.1.2-1                     X.Org X 
server -- evdev input 
driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd            1.0.1.3-2                   X.Org X 
server -- keyboard 
input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse          1.0.4-3                     X.Org X 
server -- mouse input 
driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics      0.14.6-1                    Synaptics 
TouchPad driver for 
X.Org/XFree86 
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom          0.7.4.1-3                   X.Org X 
server -- wacom input 
driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all            7.0.23                      the X.Org X 
server -- output 
driver metapack
Note: Didn't list the video drivers.

I will need to do more testings later on like using newer Pan. At this time, I 
need to do higher 
priorities. :(
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