215613 - thread sort results in hang and system reboot

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216513

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jeff Holle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

I've got complex mailing lists.
I always attempt to simplify these using the thread sort.
Have been dissatified with results in past because the process incorrectly
created a "thread" often.
With the r1.5a build, there seems to be a hard lockup that forces me to reboot
my machine to that any Mozilla functionality backup.
This occurred 4 times.  Before I learned not to do this with r1.5a and decide to
move back to a version that works.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the 'threaded' column of a complicated mail list.
2.If a lockup doesn't occur, feal lucky!
3.

Actual Results:  
The KDE desktop locks up.
The status bar menu system is healty, but the re-boot process locks up and a
shut power off process is needed.

Expected Results:  
I'd like groups of related messages to be displayed in a heirarchal display.
In past versions, often these grouping associated non-related messages, but
didn't lock up my system.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Mozilla shouldn't be able to lock up your system.  what video card do you have
and what XFree86 driver are you using?  do you use xfs (if so, check whether
it's running after things go bad)?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Looks like a dupe of bug 213805, and there's another one too.  Is this for an 
IMAP folder?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

If the dupe is agreed, it should be to bug 216513 (interestingly, a simple 
two-digit transposition of this bug's number) rather than to 213805.

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216513 ***