67989 - progress meter on linux doesn't stop spinning

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Build is 2001 02 07 11.  If I'm in the message window and I hit delete and the
status bar is spinning telling me it's doing something sometimes I have to move
the mouse before the status bar will stop spinning.  It doesn't happen every
time but it does happen very often.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

thanks for the bug, blizzard.  we know of a few problems already with status /
meteors not stopping.  we're investigating.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

blizzard, could you try the attached patch, if you have a build tree, that is.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sr=sspitzer on the fix. 

it fixes the problems I was seeing with meteors not stopping with my pop account.

over to bienvenu

Comment 5

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

It doesn't seem to help here.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Scott, could you give a yay or nay on the patch too?

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

yay!

=)

I still can't seem to reproduce these problems though. blizard is this with your
imap account?

Comment 8

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Yes, this an imap account.

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

pop accounts here

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

Chris, the problem you're seeing looks to me like linux is not processing the
event that fires the timer unless you move the mouse. The problem I fixed is
that the meteors *never* stop no matter how much you move the mouse.

Comment 11

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Looks like a perfect milestone freeze fix (almost perfect -- could be one line
instead of two :-).  [e-mail] says get this in.

/be

Comment 12

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

but (as Asa said via email) please leave the bug open, targeted at 0.9, for
investigation of blizzard's linux/timer/??? probs.

/be

Comment 13

[David :Bienvenu]

I'll definitely leave it open - in fact, I'll need to reassign it to someone who
has a clue about linux event handling. Any suggestions? Is it really possible
that a js timer would not fire until a mouse event is triggered?

Comment 14

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

anything's possible, but js timeouts aren't supposed to depend on mouse motion.
Who knows mailnews code and Linux timer impl?

/be

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

moving to .9 and clearing status whiteboard.

Comment 16

[R.K.Aa.]

Maybe wrong, but this reminds me of timer related bug 35284 & Co. (34871 and
43789) CC Pavlov, in case he has an idea.

Comment 17

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I know timers.  Can you tell me where that particular timer is added and what
its callback is?  I can look into this.

Comment 18

[Scott MacGregor]

mailwindow.js

look for a stopTimerID = setTimeout("something._stopMeteoers", 500);

Comment 19

[scottputterman]

blizzard, do you want to take this bug?

Comment 20

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Not really.  I'm still not sure what's causing it.  Tell you what, assign it to
me I'll play with the timer and see if I can track it down and maybe I can can
give you more information.

Comment 21

[David :Bienvenu]

reassigning to blizzard.

Comment 22

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I wonder if this is related to bug 66457.

Comment 23

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 73617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

[Francisco León]

Please see bug 79910 i submitted
It is really annoying that the progress meter does not stop. It halts
downloading of mail. If that bar keeps spinning after downloading mails, it WONT
download new mail unless it's stopped first. How to stop it? By moving the mouse
inside the mail window
This bug is currently the most annoying one to me.

Comment 25

[Francisco León]

This bug depends on  bug 79910 i mentioned earlier. Same behaviour

Comment 26

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I haven't seen this problem in a while.

Comment 27

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

If anybody still sees this (as blizzard has filed originally), please do
re-open.  But, I can't reproduce this anymore myself with:

RedHat Linux 7.1 with Gnome - 2001-08-14-12, using Classic & Modern on both
POP3, IMAP, and local folders.  If there are other issues related, but not
specifically as filed, but open a new bug.  Thanks.

Verified FIXED.