Re: [Evolution] Very frequent Evo freezes

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

Le dim 28/04/2002 à 17:09, Owen Taylor a écrit :
> Xavier Bestel <xav awak dyndns org> writes:
>
> > Le dim 28/04/2002 à 16:23, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > since a few days, Evo freezes very very often. This happens when I click
> > > (or select with keyboard) a mail in the list. Not always, not always the
> > > same.
> > >
> > > I tried running gdb evolution-mail in a terminal, but it exited at the
> > > freeze (Program exited). There were still evolution-mail threads
> > > present, apparently all stuck in select() or so.
> >
> > Ok, galeon seems to have the same problem, less frequent.
> > The common pattern is, when I attach gdb to the main (frozen) thread:
> > they both freeze in a X function, like this:
> >
> > #0  0x4097a7ce in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #1  0x40273fdc in _XlcPublicMethods () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> > #2  0x401cf3ba in _XRead () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> > #3  0x401cfdc3 in _XReply () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> > #4  0x401cba77 in XSync () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
> > #5  0x40041150 in gdk_superwin_scroll () from /usr/lib/libgtksuperwin.so
> >
> > Not always the same function, but top 2 are always select() and
> > _XlcPublicMethods() ... 
>
> the _XlcPublicMethods thing is just an artifact of not having
> symbols for Xlib.
>
> > now I'm a bit lost, who should I address that report to ?
>
> I'd have to guess it's an evolution bug; it's trying to use GDK from
> multiple threads without locking, and thats' corrupting X lib
> internals. (Probably the user from multiple threads is accidental)

I don't think so, because it happened suddenly both for galeon and
evolution. I suspect an underlying common package (e.g. gtk+, gdk or X)
to be the cause. Unfortunately I don't know which ones have been updated
lately.

        Xav