Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution 1.4.4-7 and Fedora 1.0 test2

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:27, Not Zed wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:57, Dax Kelson wrote: 
> > It has been hanging problems with the Evolution 1.4.4-7 included with
> > the just released 2nd test release. I experienced these first hand and
> > filled a bug in Red Hat's bugzilla.
> I wonder what there 7 extra patches include.

-7 doesn't mean 7 extra patches, but just that many builds.  But, for
what it's worth the patches in there were all stuff that had been
committed to the branch + the patch that just changes the default. 
Anything I add, I send because I don't want to be stuck maintaining a
pile of patches that isn't upstream -- it's not in my best interests :)

But, I'd also recommend (to Dax) trying the 1.4.5 package which show up
in rawhide at some point, thrown up as
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/evolution-1.4.5-2.i386.rpm to get it out
faster.

> > Strangely, although I encountered about 10 hanging bugs during the first
> > 30 minutes of booting into Fedora test2 and using the shipped Evolution,
> > the next two days I've used Evolution with nary a problem.
> > 
> > No more hanging.
> > 
> > Funny thing is that I spoke with someone else who encountered the same
> > thing. Lots of hangs at first, then smooth sailing.
> Thats pretty strange.  Of course, with no backtraces 'who knows'.

It's worse because I'm running it and yet haven't seen it :/

> > I wonder if it has anything to do with prelinking (man prelink). Fedora
> > test2 now prelinks nightly. 
> 
> What is prelinking?
> $ man prelink
> No manual entry for prelink

A copy of the man page found by google is at
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/man_pages/prelink8.html.  I
don't see how it could affect things, but it is one difference that
could be being hit.  So, running prelink now to see if it makes it so
that I start seeing the hangs so that I can start tracking things down.

Jeremy