Re: [Evolution] GAL autocomplete hanging Evo (2.11.90)

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

I see the same thing and I don't use GAL (in fact I don't use Exchange).
It happens to me with an LDAP server. I believe the 3-character
threshold is simply because Evo waits for the third character before
attempting a lookup.

Currently on 2.10.3, Fedora 7, but this has been going on for over a
year at least. It used to crash e-d-s frequently (I reported it as
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300157), now Evo mostly just
hangs and then recovers after a while.

poc

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:20 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> I've been seeing this for a while, since I upgraded to 2.11, and it's
> still happening with the latest SVN code as of yesterday.  I seem to
> recall having some issues with GAL lookup in 2.10 but they seemed more
> rare and random: what I'm seeing in 2.11 is much more prevalent.
>
> Sometimes (fairly often) when I'm composing an email and entering an
> address in the "To:" field that is being autocompleted via GAL lookup,
> Evo hangs completely (it won't even repaint if I switch to a different
> page and back again etc.) and my CPU goes very busy.  I've waited for
> quite a while and it never comes back: I have to force-quit it and
> usually I have to kill the evolution-exchange, etc. processes as well.
>
> It seems to not happen when I've just started Evo, but once it's been
> running for a bit it will happen most of the time.
>
> The problem seems to be this: I type the first 3 characters of the name
> and Evo gives me a drop-down showing matching names.  When I type the
> 4th character, Evo goes into this busy state.  I don't know if it's
> timing related but when it happens I'm typing fast (there's no real
> delay between the 3rd and 4th characters).