Re: [Evolution] Crash when composing email and arriving IMAP mail

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

> > The reason why evolution-mail doesn't pop up the standard GNOME crash
> > dialog is that the GNOME crash dialog miserably fails for a threaded
> > program, so we had to disable it.
>
> Is this a limitation of gnome-segv or of gdb?  Is this a Hard Problem(tm)
> or one that Just Needs Work(tm)?

It's not gdb. It's probably gnome-libs. The problem is that the
program would just hang when it crashed. We discovered this right
before a release and disabled the crash dialog as a workaround and
never bothered to debug it further.

-- Dan