Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.6.2 ... I just want to cry...

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:53 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> <violin>
>
> When I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 I got Evolution 2.6.1. The
> exchange-connector was broken. Actually it was libsoup that was broken.
> I stuck with it anyway, though. I found that if I restarted Evolution
> often enough that it would eventually come up. It was very frustrating.
>
> Several days ago libsoup was fixed and life was finally good! No more
> crashes! On that same day 2.6.2 was also released but it had trouble
> installing due to dependencies. My global address book was still broken
> so I looked forward to the dependencies being resolved in hopes that not
> only would it be stable but it would work like it used to before the
> upgrade.
>
> Well 2.6.2 went on and everything has gone down the drain again. Right
> now, my machine is running at 100% busy doing what appears to be
> nothing. If that were not the case then I would see it either filtering
> or downloading and stalling forever. Attempts to close the application
> gracefully fail. It simply ignores the fact that I click on the "X". I
> want to scream.
>
> It has gone from extremely bad to pretty good to absolutely unusable.
> The progression should be from really good towards excellent. Not this
> rollercoaster ride at the bottom end of acceptability.
>
> Is there not some way to keep this from happening? I am a devoted user
> but this is becoming intolerable. 

It might be that you've got miss-matched versions of evolution and its
backend components after the upgrade (i.e. the backends are still the
ones running from 2.6.1).  Try doing 'evolution --force-shutdown' in a
terminal and restarting evo to see if it's any better.

P.