Re: [Evolution] infinitive wait for network events

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 10:51 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > For many releases, including the latest in Fedora 18 
> Please give version numbers for Evolution, not the distro you use

+1

>  - not
> everyone uses the same distro so they don't know which versions you are
> talking about.

Even people using the same version of the same distro may be using
different versions of *applications*

> > I've noticing that evolution does not handle network delays properly.
> > It will spin in wait state indefinitely. Please see included
> > screenshot. I wonder how to diagnose and prevent infinitive waits. The
> > only way to end the process is to to brute force kill signals.

  netstat --verbose --program --numeric --tcp

That should show network connections.

> This has been talked about before on this list.  Yes, it is a known
> issue, but I seem to remember that the solution requires some other work
> to be done first.  My experience of the issue is that many of the
> problems stem from looking up contacts on a remote service (so that Evo
> can decide if it's going to try and display images from the network) -
> it's not the LDAP code itself that's the problem, more the type of
> traffic that LDAP generates.  So try enabling "Never load images from
> the Internet" (you can always explicitly load them with Ctrl-I) to see
> if it makes it any better.

Wasn't load-images issues resolved in 3.8.x?  At least the issue
relating the proxy servers [I thought the webkit message component fixed
that].

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA