Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.6 Hangs

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

ah, joy. you are getting bitten by that _dl_sysinfo_int80() bug which I think we discovered a few days ago is a kernel bug or something (ergo NOT an Evolution bug)

do you happen to be using fedora or something? there's a bugzilla entry in bugzilla.redhat.com about this (it seems several programs are getting hit by this bug)

Jeff

On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:13 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> You asked for it :-) I attach 2 traces.
>
> I may be out of line sending these to the list.
> If so, sorry, but I did report the first of them via Bugzilla a
> couple of days ago and never got the usual ACK.
>
> Remember that these are against 1.5.5 (despite the Subject line),
> anon CVS as of 3 days ago.
>
> poc
>
> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 09:00, Not Zed wrote:
> > Make sure its the absolute latest cvs.  Note that anoncvs hasn't been
> > updating for a few days and doesn't include some fixes for this exact
> > issue.
> > 
> > And we need a call backtrace, which you get from gdb, not a system call
> > trace, in order to debug the problem.
> > 
> > I doubt switching desktops has anything to do with it other than it
> > being a coincidence.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 14:55 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I just submitted a similar report against 1.5.5 (compiled
> > > from anon CVS). It also freezes a lot if I switch desktops
> > > under KDE 3.2. Seems to correlate with Evo doing something
> > > slow and network-related, like fetching mail, while not
> > > on the current desktop. I did an "strace -p <pid>" on the
> > > Evo shell and got
> > > 
> > > futex(0x85f7984, FUTEX_WAIT, 15, NULL <unfinished ...>
> > > 
> > > if that means anything to anybody.
> > > 
> > > Only a --force-shutdown and bonobo-slay will fix it.
> > > 
> > > Fedora RC1, KDE 3.2
> > > 
> > > poc
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 13:35 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > Don't bother submitting a bug report unless it is eproducable on 1.5
> > > > (it is extremely unlikely that we will be touching the 1.4 codebase
> > > > ever again)
> > > > 
> > > > Jeff
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:01 -0600, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: 
> > > > > I've got two situations that frequently cause Evo 1.4.6 to hang:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 1. When viewing a folder in which I have not yet disabled the preview
> > > > > pane, if I try to disable it using Alt-V P (I.e., View->Preview Pane),
> > > > > Evolution locks up. Once I force shutdown, I can enter the same folder
> > > > > and accomplish this successfully, but on the first try, it locks up.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 2. If I leave Evolution running for long periods of time (say, the
> > > > > duration of a business day), when I quit, Evolution will lock up.
> > > > > 
> > > > > One interesting point about this was that when I was still using
> > > > > Slackware 9.0, I didn't have this problem. I've had it with both
> > > > > Evolution 1.4.5 and 1.4.6 since upgrading.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've tried running with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1, and I don't see anything
> > > > > indicative of a problem.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm running Slackware 9.1 for ix86. I have one account which accesses an
> > > > > Exchange server and one that accesses Courier-IMAP.
> > > > > 
> > > > > If the developers have any suggestions for providing more output, I'd be
> > > > > happy to oblige.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Should I file a bug report for each case? I didn't see any that matched
> > > > > my scenarios.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -tfo
> > > > > 
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