Re: [Evolution] Persistent intermitent Compose widow freeze ??

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi Ritesh;

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 01:26 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?  Is it a bug?
> >
> > Every now and them my compose window freezes and freezes all other
> > applications on my machine.  My hard drive comes on and continues to run
> > for no apparent reason.  The CPU does not seem to be being used but can
> > only recognize a keyboard or mouse command every 10 - 30 seconds or so.
> Is there a way to reproduce this reliably ?
No.  Sometime it goes for months without happening.  That is why I have
left it for so long without looking for a fix.

> > The only way out is to Ctrl-Alt-Fx; login as root killall -u user and
> > reboot.  It feels like the compose widow has set up a loop.  I say feels
> reboot ? Is the system thrashing ?
Probably.  Have tried to get a look at the swap file but run out of
patience waiting for my system monitor.  Don't know how to follow
swap/memory usage at command line.  I will find out now.


> > like because I have been unable to catch it with top or see if a
> > continuous swap has been going on.
>
> If disk is thrashing, open up a terminal, and shutdoen evolution, set
> memory limits and startup evolution from the terminal. 
>
>       $ evolution --force-shutdown
>       $ ulimits -v 500000
>       $ evolution

Will try.  Haven't been able to get gterm working while window frozen.
Will use xterm (C-A-Fx) next time.  That always seems available.  

> Try obtaining a bt of evolution from command line, this might help the
> developer. ( http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces )
New learning curve.

> > It is not a new problem.  I have had it happen to me in FC5, FC6 and now
> > F-7.  This freezing is rare and seems random, but persistent.
> Have you filled a bugzilla  for the same ?
No.  Was asking here first if others have the problem. On some things,
like filing bugs, I am a novice.  I wanted to be sure I have a bug and
not just a case of stupidity.

> > Is there any way I can capture what is happening. message log doesn't
> > seem to reveal anything.
>
> ps: i am not a evolution developer.
-- 
Regards Bill