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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19pre9 i586; Nav) From time to time tin will lock the computer solid while threading articles (this is the message in the tin "status bar"). Ie, it has downloaded the articles and then started threading them but does not display the article info yet. Happens with different newsservers, all "remote" - NNTPSERVER env variable is set and tin is started tin -r This happens both in X (running from an x-term) or remotly via SSH (has occured both with ssh.com:s SSH version 1.2.27 and OpenSSH 2.3.0pl1). Have not tried a plain login-prompt. Has also occured with kernels 2.2.17, 2.2.18, 2.2.19pre9. These are not RedHat compiled kernels - but they function in every other case except this. Has only seen this with newsgroups with > 1000 articles and it is a non-regular bug and I can't reproduce it easily (happens very randomly). Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start tin with and connect to a remote server (tin -r) 2. Select a group with > 1000 messages 3. See if computer locks while tin is "threading articles" Actual Results: Computer locks solid (no error messages in logs after restart and no OOPS info seen). Expected Results: Program displaying article info tin version 1.4.4 After restarting the computer one sometimes manually have to run e2fsck to repair filesystem problems that might have occured. The bug is not as annoying as the outcome. The computer should not lock solid.
there is _no way_ tin could lock the computer up. Only a kernel crash could lock the computer up. A kernel crash under heavy CPU load (like threading articles) is usually indicative of flakey hardware, bad memory, overclocking, or the like. We have no other reports of this nature, and we cannot duplicate the behaviour here, so we must go on the assumption that your hardware is flakey. If you can duplicate this on another computer, please re-open.