Closed Bug 83693 Opened 25 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Mozilla's UI hangs when subscribing to several (~>5) newsgroups

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Networking: NNTP
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 39183

People

(Reporter: chrish, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

(Keywords: hang)

Mozilla hangs for extended (possibly indefinite -- I haven't tested fully) amounts of time when subscribing to reasonably large numbers of groups from my local news group feed via the leafnode news server/proxy. A small number of groups (say five) is fine, however when I subscribe to further groups, and I attempt to switch between the groups to read the messages, the UI just freezes. It doesn't crash/sefault/core dump or anything. Eventually I have to kill off the process. I don't know whether Mozilla dislikes being fed news via leafnode -- I haven't tried directly connecting to my ISP's news server. I don't know whether this is Linux only. CC'ing: asa as requested
Severity: major → critical
Keywords: hang
QA Contact: esther → stephend
Mine doesn't hang using Collabra 3.52 as the server with RedHat 7.0 2.2.16-22smp using 2001-05-31-08 on news.mozilla.org to subscribe to 7 groups, and switching between them doesn't freeze the UI. Quite possible this is unique to leafnode. Can you tell us what version of leafnode you are using, as well as your Mozilla build ID, along with linux distro version, kernel version, and lastly, can you try your ISP's news server, to see if we can narrow it down to leafnode? Thanks.
Build 2001-05-31-08: Linux RH 6.2 It works for me using Collabra 3.52 as the server with one news server subscribed to 6 newsgroups. My experience is simlar to Stephen's.
OK. The system details are as follows: Mozilla 2001053108 (also seen with 0.9 though) Leafnode 1.9.18 (which I think is the latest, or close to it) The distribution is Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 (potato), which has been fairly heavily upgraded by myself by compiling various bits. The kernel is 2.4.5, although since I saw the problem with 0.9, that must have been with about kernel 2.4.4 since I don't think 2.4.5 was released then.... I'm also running XFree86 4.0.3. I'll have a go with news.mozilla.org as my news server... Thanks :)
Can't seem to reproduce the hange when using news.mozilla.org. So looks like it's a leafnode issue. However I can't seem to load any message bodies from news.mozilla.org from the build. Don't know if it's me doing anything stupid... The messages are there, and the from and subject load, I just don't see anything in the body. I can see the message text if I view the message source... I've stuck a screenshot here. http://chrishowells.co.uk/stuff/mozilla.png
Mozilla just sits there consuming CPU time during the hang. From 'top': PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 6214 chris 16 0 31744 30M 14404 R 0 35.7 16.4 4:22 mozilla-bin
I wonder if this is the same as http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39183 ?
Confirming, 2 reports are good enough for me. *this bug, + the other bug*. If you're fine with this being a DUP, I might mark the other a dup of this, since yours seems to have updated, more relevant info than the other bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I think it probably is the same. The other bug seemed to be related to some JS problem or similair. Personally I can't really understand how leafnode could cause such a problem, but then again, I don't know the code ;) I've tried running Mozilla from the terminal to try and catch anything going out of STDOUT or STDERR, although unfortunately those messages seem to have been cut down upon -- I don't get any errors at all, just the normal output messages about having changed mailboxes, etc. I hope it gets fixed soon -- the only thing stopping me using Mozilla is this bug :)
I noticed Mozilla hanging 2001-11-12 w2K builds when subscribing to newsgroups.. I tried adding more than 5 also. I noticed this problem when creating a new profile, but not when copying prefs.js and my News Folder to the new profile.
I noticed Mozilla hanging 2001-11-12 w2K builds when subscribing to newsgroups.. I tried adding more than 5 also. I noticed this problem when creating a new profile, but not when copying prefs.js and my News Folder to the new profile. I had done a new W2K format/install, and 11-12 is my first Mozilla build I installed on my newer HD.
subscribing to 1 newsgroup in 2001-11-12 W2K hangs mozilla.. maybe someone changed the code to get messages for newsgroups, dont know how far back this goes.. will start looking.
I just deleted my prefs.js file for 2001-11-12-03 build and resubscribed to newsgroups with just 1 newsgroup. and no hang.. Maybe this is related to using old News Folder and an old prefs.js file. So invalidating my own statement about a clean install is not working in comment #10, and comment #11.. tried > 6 and it worked also so invalidating comment #12.. I'd say wfm in 2001-11-12 W2K now. This bug could be a residual side effect problem. Again, I have created a new W2K install, and Mozilla is the first install ed app. BTW, FYI, I also added clean netscape 6.2.
->News
Component: Mail Window Front End → Networking - News
same bug for me, suse linux 7.3 kernel 2.4.17 just installed mozilla 0.9.9
Product: MailNews → Core
duping per comment 7 and comment 16 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39183 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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