211420 - Mozilla downloads posts multiple times

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[MrJeff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

A couple of times I have told mozilla to download all the posts in a very large
group (which of course takes time). If I stop mozilla part way through (by
clicking on another group for example), and then click back on the group, when
mozilla eventually finishes there are multiple copies of some posts and various
strange effects (when I try to collapse a thread it will only "half-collapse",
leaving part of the thread visable)

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe the large group (>10,000 posts)
2. Tell mozilla to download all headers
3. Click off group before finished
4. Go back to group

Actual Results:  
Multiple copies of some posts

Expected Results:  
Not multiple copies of some posts

If there is some log I can take that may help finding the bug, I will be happy
to do so. I am leaving this bug as "major"  because it is very hard to escape
from (I find I have to desubscribe from the whole server to get mozilla to fix
itself)

Comment 1

[Stewart Gordon]

Attachment: Screenshot - expanded thread

I've seen strange things like this one on quite a few occasions.  This is from
2003062808, same happens on 2003070708.

Is this what is happening with you?

Comment 2

[Stewart Gordon]

Attachment: Screenshot - collapsed again

This is what happens for me when the above thread is collapsed after being
expanded.

The whole process is the same whether I am in All or Threads with Unread mode. 
But a more serious problem is that actual replies aren't being shown at any
point unless I go into Unread, so that anyone is likely to miss them.

Comment 3

[MrJeff]

Yep, that's exactly the problem I'm seeing :)

It's still present in:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

as well... :\

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

please *attach* a NNTP protocol log to this bug.
also test if you can reproduce this bug using a new profile via "mozilla.exe
-profilemanager"

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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