Re: [Evolution] each other mail hangs the machine

[Ludek Safar <lsafar suse cz>]

Hi,

> I hit the New button, write a mail, send. Ok.
> I hit the New button, Evo freezes, Mozilla freezes after a while too,
> finally I can write a mail, send. Ok.

I had similiar problem with Evo 1.4.5 few months ago... BTW your version
seems pretty grayhaired as well - not thinking about upgrade?

> And this is like an infinite loop... Out of each two mails (precisely),
> one of them hangs my machine (one works, one doesn't, one works, one
> doesn't, etc).

Good to know it's not really infinite at the end :-)

> I would like to at least be able to debug this... can anyone tell me how
> to do that, too? :-|

You can use "strace" command - shutdown evo, then run from console
(xterm):
evolution --force-shutdown
strace -f -o/tmp/strace.out evolution &
tail -f /tmp/strace.out

This will preserve strace output for future analysis (the file tends to
be quite big, so be sure there's enough space in /tmp.

When Evo hangs, switch to the console (or xterm) you'd ran the strace
from and take a look what it is waiting for.

I'd guess it's some kind of weird socket...

My problem was solved by switching to 1st runlevel, deleting whole /tmp
content and back to 5th runlevel, from then it's OK. Strange, i know.

-- 
Take care

Ludek