Re: [Evolution] can not close evolution while it is pinging the IMAP server

[Nicolas Bock <nbock lanl gov>]

Hi Mathew,

I think you are right, evolution eventually realizes that it can't talk to the IMAP server this way. It's just kind of annoying that this takes several minutes.

nick


On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 14:33 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:09 -0600, Nicolas Bock wrote:
> > I am running evolution 2.8.3. I connect to an IMAP server at work to
> > get my email. When I am at home I can not directly contact the IMAP
> > server since it is behind a firewall. I need to connect with VPN
> > first. Sometimes VPN drops the connection and I get thrown back out of
> > the firewall. The IMAP server becomes inaccessible. Sometimes
> > evolution is doing something when this happens and it gets stuck in
> > "pinging IMAP server" mode. Reconnecting via VPN does not help. I
> > can't even quit evolution at this point and have to force quit it in
> > gnome. Is this a known issue? Can I somehow prevent evolution from
> > "pinging the IMAP server"?
>
> Nick,
>
> If you let it go for a few minutes does it finally close on its own, or
> is it permanently stuck?  My guess is that the application is just
> waiting for a socket to timeout, which usually takes a minute or so.
>
> Still, the Evolution developers went to great lengths to make sure
> blocking I/O calls were cancelable.  Closing the application ought to
> immediately cancel any such I/O operations.  So I'd say you have a
> legitimate bug here.
>
> I've seen this behavior myself while using a VPN, actually, though it
> usually manages to close itself after a couple minutes.  So it *is* a
> known issue.  Unfortunately I don't know of a workaround other than
> issuing
>
> 	evolution --force-shutdown
>
> from a terminal window, which is essentially the same as Force Quit.
>
> If you can, you might also try upgrading to Evolution 2.10 and seeing if
> the situation improves.
>
> Matthew Barnes
>
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