Re: [Evolution] open

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 15:50 +0200, Gottfried wrote:
> I attached the list in txt format. Is that OK?

        Hi,
this one is fine for a brief look on what evolution does. It shows that
Thread 12 is truly waiting for credentials and Thread 1 is redrawing a
tree view. I guess, from the past experience, that the tree view being
redrew is the folder tree on the left, due to the spinner beside the
account name, which indicates that the account is connecting.

I'm unsure of one thing: does Evolution freeze in this state and it
doesn't repaint, like you cannot scroll up/down in the folder tree with
a mouse wheel when the cursor is above it and the spinner (which I hope
you see) doesn't spin; or the evolution is alive UI-wise, but it
doesn't want to connect the account and keeps the spinner spinning?
There is a difference between the two states. When the evolution is
stuck and doesn't repaint, then you might face an issue with a deadlock
of some type (kind of unlikely in this case, but I didn't see all of
the cases for sure) or the credentials prompt dialog is behind the main
Evolution window for some reason. This could happened for New Mail
windows in the past, thus why not also for the credentials prompt.

You mentioned that you use GNOME. As it looks like you've most of its
settings in defaults, you probably run the Wayland session, not X.org.
This can be changed during the login, when you click the gear wheel
icon after you select the user to log in (and before you enter the
password for the user). I do not know whether your Evolution window is
maximized or not, but I'd unmaximize it and make it as small as
possible (thus any window below it could be easily seen, thus also move
it to some corner, to occupy as small part of the center of the screen
as possible). You can run Evolution from a terminal in offline mode:

   $ evolution --offline

which will avoid the password prompt for the mail account, because it
will not try to connect to the server. Then, when you've the Evolution
window moved appropriately, switch it to online with File->Work Online
menu option and then click File->Send/Receive-><the account> to make it
connect and refresh it. It can also happen that the credentials prompt
is on a different desktop (there was a bug about it int he past,
related to KDE).

These are just some wild guesses.

You can verify your password in Seahorse (it's Passwords & Keys
application), where you can see which are stored and what they are.

You can also tweak some GNOME behaviour with a gnome-tweak-tool (where
the most irritating for me is when a modal window movement moves also
its parent, which I turn off).
        Bye,
        Milan