On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:09:14AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug > 2006 02:02:10 -0700: > > > In alt.binaries.ipod.videos.movies newsgroup on news.giganews.com 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. > > I'm going to be subscribing to newshosting this weekend (waiting to see if > someone wants to sponsor me and get the kickback ATM, anybody here? I may > have subscribed time you reply, but worth a shot) and may be able to try > it. Any idea the relative date range causing the issue?
Try downloading about 30K posts. I did 15K last night. > > You can read the details at > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=975183 ... > > > > Has anyone seen or have this problem? I am not planning to upgrade to the > > newer Pan version since it doesn't have all the features I use in the > > older one. > > That's the first time I've seen anything similar reported in the pan > groups/lists. > > It's up to you whether you upgrade or not, of course, but you > realize the old code is now dead and not likely to be updated or bug-fixed > any further, right? As such, while confirming the bug as a pan bug or I understand. Until Pan has most of the features, I will use the old one. > tracing it to something else (maybe NVidia since you appear to be > running their closed drivers and it certainly affects video) might be > worthwhile, spending too much time tracing bugs in the old code simply > won't be. > > FWIW, I was previously suggesting folks stick with old-pan for text or if > they didn't need any of the new features. With the last couple betas, > 0.108 and 0.109, however, that's changed. The new version has all my most > used features for text anyway, and is enough better for binaries I'm > getting back into them (thus the newshosting thing I mentioned above). > > For categorizing, I'm using the $PAN_HOME environmental variable, with a > script setting it to one dir for my text groups, a second for binaries, > and a third for my test config (which allows me separate settings > appropriate to each, but also using symlinks, to use the same file where > appropriate, as with the accels.txt file). That keeps displayed > subscribed groups to a manageable level, one of the big requests. The > only other other one I still miss is the ability to actually kill (as in > delete) kill-scored posts, and mark-as-read low/negative scored posts (so > they'd be hidden by default, something I did in old-pan using rules. > > That said, as I said, it's up to you when to upgrade and I definitely > understand not wanting to do so until new-pan is out of beta and into > stable, anyway, which it isn't yet. Thus, at least trying to work thru > any issues in old-pan continues to be worthwhile. I'll see if anything > strange comes up when I visit the group after subscribing to newshosting > (Cox's servers are crap ATM and have been most of the time for months, for > binaries of any size, tho std jpeg size bins seem to be semi-decent.) _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
