Re: [Evolution] Hang while formatting message

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

I set it to "Never load images from Internet" a couple of days ago and
it hasn't hung again, touch wood.

I'll leave it at that a while longer, then maybe try the
EVOLUTION_NO_BAR=1 thing with images loading turned back on.

poc

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 09:22 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> Try setting the environmental variable EVOLUTION_NO_BAR=1, and see if
> that stop the hangs.
>
> Also, try disabling 'load images if sender is in addressbook', it might
> be the addressbook lookup hanging - which isn't cancellable either.
>
> I guess, file a bug, include a backtrace of all threads, and preferrably
> attach example messages.
>
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 19:59 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > This is in 2.3.7 and 2.3.8 at least, maybe other versions as well.
> >
> > Often, when some HTML-formatted message is in the preview pane, I see
> > the message text and graphic placeholders, the status message at the
> > bottom says "Formatting message (...)" and never terminates, i.e. the
> > preview pane is now stuck on the message that provoked the problem. Note
> > that Evo itself doesn't hang: I can double-click on other messages and
> > see them, change folders, set preferences, send and receive mail, etc.
> > etc., but I cannot change the contents of the preview pane again without
> > forceably killing Evo and restarting.
> >
> > "Cancel" does nothing.
> >
> > "Quit" causes the Evo window to grey out and sit there forever. (<rant>
> > A Quit button should quit the application *always* -- IMHO an end user
> > shouldn't have to know about "evolution --force-shutdown"; I actually
> > have a special "KillEvo" button on my desktop since I need it so often,
> > even with supposedly stable versions of Evo </rant>).
> >
> > In Preferences I have "Show animated images" OFF, and "Load images in
> > mail from contacts" ON. I've played with various combinations of these
> > without affecting the frequency of this bug.
> >
> > poc
> >
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