-- David
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This problem, which I first reported back on August 1
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pan-users/2008-08/msg00000.html), has
remained unsolved and highly annoying. Then, 2 days ago, I got an E-mail
from another pan user saying that he had the same problem, asking
whether I had found a solution. I told him I had not, and reiterated the
strange fact that the problem is totally absent when I run pan under
MacOS X. Somehow, he thought of testing for the problem under Linux, but
using a different desktop, namely XFCE. Bingo! This made the problem
vanish (note that we have both been using GNOME under Ubuntu). I
promptly tried XFCE myself and reproduced his success on my own system.
And tonight, I loaded KDE onto my system and tried pan there. Once
again, no trace of the problem. As hard as I find this to believe, it
appears to be a GNOME problem, or a pan/GNOME incompatibility, at least
under Ubuntu, both Hardy and the new Intrepid, both 64 (which he is
running) and 32 bit (which I am). It seems ironic, considering that the
first pan version I used (let's call it old old pan) was explicitly
advertised as a GNOME newsreader, and used GNOME libraries. I have been
a loyal GNOME user for almost 10 years, but XFCE seems to do everything
I need so I guess it's finally time for a vacation from GNOME. I'll keep
retrying it from time to time to see if the problem is still there. It
definitely did not used to be there, so it must have crept in with some
GNOME/Ubuntu update. Meanwhile, I cannot imagine what the mechanism of
this could be.
- [Pan-users] update on freeze, high CPU getting new headers: ... David Shochat
