Re: [Evolution] latest snapshot

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I believe Danw has fixed the pop retrieve bug. Hopefully the next
snapshot should have the fix.

Jeff

On 03 Apr 2001 09:46:06 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le 2001.04.03 01:45:12 +0200, Not Zed a écrit :
> > > > Does it still crash at all (during mail retrieval)? That bug should
> > be
> > > > fixed.
> > >
> > > Well, it still hasn't crashed (I tried several times with various mail
> > > loads). I think I can safely say this annoying bug is fixed.
> >
> >
> > I reckon you're just lucky, since it crashed in libibex and that hasn't
> > changed for months.
>
> Well, this is not the same bug ! The libibex bug was caused by a corrupted
> mbox.ibex and crashed the mailer systematically when syncronising mail just
> after retreival. But the bug I was talking about in my previous mail is
> caused by getting mail from multiple POP accounts simultaneously. And it
> was quite frequent (nearly each time there was mail on both accounts) and
> occured on the 2nd or 3rd mail.
>
> > I've been running some regression tests (the last one ran all night on
> > an athlon 1200 :(, and I am not getting anywhere.  Under very rare
> > circumstances I can get it to crash (actually i have to turn on mcheck),
> > but if i run it under any sort of debugger it never fails (and we're
> > talking a lot of heavy testing, millions of flat out updates while
> > performing flat out lookups from another thread).
> >
> > I've never seen any corrupted file errors either, just mcheck can bomb
> > out, but nothing else (i save/reload the file often).
> >
> > If I use mcheck i sometimes get clobbered memory but the result doesn't
> > make a lot of sense, and i have no idea what's causing it.  It never
> > crashes (so far) when I do single-threaded operation.  But that doesn't
> > make sense either, the locking is so simple, etc.
> >
> > So, either mcheck is getting confused, or its not, or ibex memory is
> > being corrupted by other things going on, or well I dont know.  I need
> > to do some purify.
> >
> >  !Z
>
> OK, so there's still something waiting in the dark to bite us ...
>
> Xav
>
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