Re: [Evolution-hackers] Stuck in "Loading.." while opening a mail account folder tree

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 19:52 +0530, Parthasarathi Susarla wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:59 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have implemented get_folder_info() for my Exchange/Brutus provider.
> > The folder tree is scanned just fine as can be seen from this screen
> > shot:
> > 
> > http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/evolution-brutus.png 
> > 
> > The problem seems to be that if I choose a folder within the Exchange
> > tree, then Evolution has a habit of being stuck in "Loading..." when I
> > expand the folder tree in subsequent Evolution sessions. I had to go
> > through several off-line/on-line cycles to make it expand properly
> > again.
> > 
> > My guess is that something is cached within Evolution and that cache
> > will prevent the folder tree from expanding until the cache is
> > invalidated.
> Evolution would not cache any info, unless your provider did so
> explicitly. 

Ok, good to know.

> You could use gdb to actually see whats happening, or where
> exactly it is stuck (if it has)

It was stuck in the code displaying the folder tree in Evolution itself.
gdb didn't help me much to show what the problem was, but I suspect that
it might have something to do with something stupid that I did. 


Thanks,
  jules