130434 - Clicking expired article link causes application hang.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect, P2)

Description

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Build ID: 2002-03-12-03, Windows 98.

Summary:  Clicking expired article link causes application hang.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Subscribe to news://news.mcom.com/rec.music.gdead.
2.  Wait until a few articles expire.
3.  When you receive an expired article notification, click on the HTML link to
remove all expired articles.

Expected Results:

Expired articles should be removed after running
news://[e-mail]/rec.music.gdead?list-ids

Actual Results:

Clicking the link makes the thread pane turn gray, and freezes the process (you
have to force the app to quit, there is no recovery possible).

Comment 1

[Michael Buckland]

Discussed in Mail News bug meeting with Engineering, QA, Mktng and PjM. 
Decision was to plus this bug.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

this works fine for me - now, it's possible that it's just taking a long time
because you have an enormous number of headers downloaded for that newsgroup,
and I believe we're committing the db after every article gets expired. How many
headers have you downloaded for that group?

Comment 3

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I couldn't reproduce this on my Win2K box (using the same newsgroup), but I saw
this on the 98 machine in the performance lab.  Unfortunately, the nature of
that machine is such that profiles get whacked semi-daily.  I caught this on the
weekend, but that profile has since disapppeared.  Laurel probably still sees
this since 98 is her native operating system.  

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Laurel, do you see this?

Comment 5

[laurel]

I haven't seen it again, but then I had a mishap which blotted out my old
profile, so I don't have the built up expired article groups anymore. Will try
in some of my other existing profiles...

Comment 6

[laurel]

Worked OK for me on mar25 commercial trunk build, win98. Will keep an eye out
for it again... guess it's a worksforme now.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

ok, wfm. I do believe that if you have a lot of expired articles, and a slow
machine, this can look like a hang because I think we commit the db after
expiring each article (there's a separate bug open on that, assigned to Seth, I
believe).

Comment 8

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Marking verified worksforme as this is working on 2002-03-28 - Windows 2000,
Mandrake 8.1 and Mac OS X 10.1.3.  Laurel says this is working for her now on
her 9 8 system.  Will reopen/refile if we see this again.