Re: [Evolution] hanging when downloading messages

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 01:23 -0700, Ski Dawg wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:10 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > Haven't seen this.  Unless it is just 'busy', e.g. re-indexing a
> > folder that the next message is destined for since i is just opening
> > up.
>
> Well, I have seen it locked up for several hours before, so I wouldn't
> think that it would be a re-indexing issue. Is there anything that I can
> do to determine if this is the case?

Yes.  Run evolution in gdb (in a terminal, "gdb evolution" then at the (gdb) prompt, "r").  When it hangs, go back to the gdb session and hit ctrl-c.  Then type "thread apply all bt", then attach that output to a bug report on bugzilla.ximian.com.

This will show where in the code it is hanging.

You might want to do an "export CAMEL_DEBUG=all" before you run gdb too.  If you do that, it will print out all of the server dialogue - you may want to scrub the output of any sensitive information if you do that.

> > 2.0.2 has a lot of bugs though, try 2.0.3 or 2.0.4 at least.
>
> I had tried upgrading my version, but I couldn't find the RPMs for FC3,
> the link to Red Carpet on the Evolution project page (at gnome.org)
> gives a 404 error to Novell and the installer program that I found
> couldn't determine my OS. So I tried compiling it from scratch, but that
> didn't work very well for me (resolving dependencies, etc.). So for now
> I am stuck on this version.
Yeah compiling is difficult.  I'm surprised there's not something newer than 2.0.2 for fc3 somewhere.