188774 - expanding and collapsing specific threads only makes messages appear several times

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Uri Dor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

I've been viewing some threads on comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, and I
can't sem to collapse their view. when I try to expand and then collapse, I only
get to see the same messages several times.
for example, a thread started by "lz" on 1/9/2003 10:14 PM titled "FreeLibrary"
- news://news.bezeqint.net:119/[e-mail], and a thread
started by "Adam M. Fass" on 1/9/2003 11:47 PM titled "Turning off the monitor"
- news://news.bezeqint.net:119/[e-mail].


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. view the above threads
2. expand the thread
3. collapse the thread

Actual Results:  
the 1st message appears with several (copies of) messages from the thread. each
time I expand and collapse, more copies of the same messages appear in the
treeview. 
note: the "FreeLibrary" thread only seems to have one message in it

Expected Results:  
show only the 1st message in each thread

Comment 1

[Uri Dor]

Attachment: screen shot of "smeared" news thread

just in case me description wasn't understood...
see the "FreeLibrary" thread

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

please try a newer build - you may also need to remove the .msf file for this
newsgroup for this problem to go away with a newer build. I believe this is a
dup of an already fixed bug.

Comment 3

[Uri Dor]

thanks, bienvenu.
I'm not accustomed to using non-released builds - should I expect to see this
fixed in 1.3 Beta?

Comment 4

[Uri Dor]

same bug still happens with 1.4b
toda it happened with this thread:
news://news.netvision.net.il:119/[e-mail]

BTW, what and where is the mentioned .msf file ?

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

the .msf file is in your user profile directory, in the news server subdirectory
- just do a search for a file with the same name as the newsgroup and a .msf
extension.

Since I don't have access to that news server, I don't know what thread it's
happening on. Is it a public newsgroup?

Comment 6

[Uri Dor]

my apologies - the group is microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.clr, as public as
can be.
I found the .msf file, but I doubt deleting it will help me - I only subscribed
to this newgroup today, using 1.4b, so I don't have a build newer than this. I
think this also proves this bug isn't fixed in 1.4b, right?

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Is it this message? C# questions from C++ developer by "Alexander Galkin"? I did
not see this problem expanding/collapsing this thread. Are you in the "unread
only" view, or viewing all headers?

Comment 8

[Uri Dor]

yep, that's the thread. I was viewing all headers. of that I'm certain.
funny - now it doesn't reproduce.
this bug is strange, but I'm sure I'll see it again.

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

Uri, the problem you saw might be just a temporary problem when headers arrive
into an open newsgroup out of thread order - the already fixed bug I referred to
earlier was a permanent problem (hence the need to delete the .msf file).
However, I don't know of a reproducible case for a problem like this. Did you
get new messages while you were reading the group? Or did you just open it and
see the problem right away when expanding the thread?

Comment 10

[Uri Dor]

to the best of my memory, I first subscribed, then "got new messages" (which
only brings headers, right?), and only when that was done I started reading the
messages in the group.
does that answer your question?

Comment 11

[Uri Dor]

I got the same problem today (this time moz 1.4) on another newgroup.
whassup with this?

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM version 2.0.0.6 (20070728) and trunk