Re: [Pan-users] Re: Is this normal behavior in PAN?

[David Shochat]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

[snip]
> different bug that also occurred on Ubuntu with certain library
> versions.  In that case, pan when run on GNOME, but NOT when run on XFCE
> or on KDE, would stall for some period (like it was in a loop that
> repeatedly hit an assertion and bailed, then hit it again processing the
> next header, IIRC it was a single thread high CPU utilization stall),
> while threading new messages after downloading new headers in a group of
> some size.
>
> As I said, the folks reporting it were all on Ubuntu, at the time 8.04
> but I have no idea whether it was fixed for 8.10 or not, and someone
> discovered that it ONLY happened when running GNOME, NOT when running KDE
> or XFCE on the same installation.  That DEFINITELY points to some sort of
> shared library issue but it was never pinned down.

I am am one of those with this problem and it does occur in 8.10. I'm
on XFCE now and will not try going back to GNOME until the next
version of Ubuntu comes along.
-- David