Bug 2223814 - Update application Pan to fix known bugs causing crash or infinite loops.
Summary: Update application Pan to fix known bugs causing crash or infinite loops.
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pan
Version: 38
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-19 03:39 UTC by Robin Laing
Modified: 2023-07-19 03:42 UTC (History)
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Corrupted window for application Pan (375.57 KB, image/png)
2023-07-19 03:42 UTC, Robin Laing
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Description Robin Laing 2023-07-19 03:39:33 UTC
Currently FC37 and FC38 are using Pan 0.149 which has a known bug with newsgroups with a large number of posts.  This causes the system to crash or freeze making the application and system a problem.  Loading a large group like a.b.tv or a.b.multimedia demonstrates the issue.

1:0.149-4.fc38

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Pan 0.149 
2.  Go to a large newsgroup with millions of posts and load, a.b.multimedia for example.
3.  Wait for nothing as the program either crashes or runs forever.
Actual Results:  
Pan goes into a loop and looks like it crashes, using close to 100% of a processor.  GUI is unresponsive so you cannot stop it.  Cannot open the task list to stop the process.



Expected Results:  
Pan should be able to load the newsgroup or be able to use the GUI to stop the process.

A patch to pan was implemented a year ago.  May fix the problem.  

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/merge_requests/25

This bug may also be related to the crashing via an infinate loop.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan/-/merge_requests/41

Comment 1 Robin Laing 2023-07-19 03:42:51 UTC
Created attachment 1976432 [details]
Corrupted window for application Pan

This is a screen cap of the corrupted image since Pan won't update it's window while it is stuck with a large group.  Not sure if the program crashed or is stuck in a loop.


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