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

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Hi Paul,

It could be possible that GAL is being cached at the backend. Can you
try a few things? 

Check if you have enabled GAL for offline usage (if not enable it). If
so just delete your current cache ~/.evolution/cache/addressbook/gal*
and start evolution-exchange in a separate terminal and start evolution
-c contacts and select GAL and wait to get 'Search for Contact' which
would mean that GAL is cached. Then try your autocompletions and other
things.

Let me know, how it goes.

-Srini.

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).