Re: [Evolution] evolution stability faq

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:51 +0200, Hans wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:29 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:22 -0500, Bill Milbratz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Evolution is a great product and meets a definite need on my desktop.
> > > Yay!
> > >
> > > But its crashiness makes it nearly unusable.  It's seemed to got worse
> > > in the last few months; I don't know why.
> > >
> > > Is there a faq on evolution stability? A wiki? Any such unofficial
> > > documentation on keeping-it-running?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Bill m
> > >
> > > P.s. I'm running 2.4.2.1--the latest on gentoo linux
> >
> > It's probably a Gentoo thing.  (Evo on Debian is almost always
> > very stable, and probably the same on SuSE where it's developed.)
>
> Nope, my standard out of the box SuSE 10.0 Evol 2.4 install is also very
> unstable.
> I think my problems is more the exchange-server module that falls over
> every now and then, especially when doing some complex meeting request

Ah, could be.  I "just" use a *ix-based IMAP data store, and it
hardly ever crashes.  When it does, Debian soon releases a distro
point upgrade and things get back to normal.

> with LDAP contacts in the Calender.
> The exchange-sever and evol gets out of sync, I think?

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