Re: [Evolution] IMAP folders unresponsive under RH7.2

[Ben Steeves <bcs metaconsulting dhs org>]

Many thanks.  Yay!  I just love compiling kernels at 2AM :-)

On 28 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> I had a similar problem earlier tonight when I turned on my
> flaky_network_write() wrapper around libc's write() call. This magical
> function seems to break kernels, because in kernel 2.2.17 on my laptop,
> all of Evo's pthreads crash whenever errno gets set to EAGAIN or
> EWOULDBLOCK which are both valid error conditions when writing to a
> socket...
>
> Now, kernel 2.4.7 (default redhat 7.2 kernel) will block forever in a
> select() call after errno gets set to EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK in a
> multithreaded library (compiled even with -D_REENTRANT).
>
> Therein lies your problem...go and complain to your local kernel
> developer and get him/her to fix it.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 01:01, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > I just did a clean install of RedHat 7.2, Ximian Desktop & Evolution, but
> > I'm using the /home from my RH7.1 install.  When I start up Evo, I can
> > access my tasks, calendar and contacts, but my IMAP folders won't open (I
> > click on the shortcuts on the left and nothing happens).  
> >
> > Any suggestions? 
> >
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