139763 - Click here to remove expired articles - 100% CPU hang

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 124673

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[WD]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020423
BuildID:    2002042303

When I open an expired news article, I get the option of removing all expired
articles by clicking a link.    When I click it, CPU usage goes to 100%, and I
have to kill the mozilla process

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open an expired news article
2.Click link to remove expired articles
3.

Actual Results:  Mozilla hangs

Expected Results:  Expired articles removed.

a couple of groups worked OK, and articles were removed immediately.   When
mozilla hangs, I've let it sit there for about 5 minutes, and it still is hung
up.   The groups that have caused the hang will hang every time I try.   (With
the specific group, it's not random at all)
It might be related to the number of articles in the group?

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this is a dup of bug 124673 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124673 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate