Re: [Evolution] Evolution keeps stalling on me

[jim <cinetron passport ca>]

> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running 2.22.3.1 on Ubuntu Hardy and for some reason Evolution
> > stalls on me a couple times a day. The only way to get it to work again
> > is to send the process a term or kill signal and restart it.
>
> In fact you can run "evolution --force-shutdown" to stop Evo.
>
> > I can't
> > quit via the menus. Emails stop downloading. Just wondering if anyone
> > knows what could be the issue. Looking at my processes there is no
> > excessive memory or cpu usage when this happens. This was also happening
> > on previous versions but I put up with it.
>
> I've had this happen since I started using Evo several years ago.
> Sometimes when I install a new version I think it's gone away, then it
> comes back again. It's hard to pin down the circumstances exactly, but
> for one thing Evo seems not to be very robust in the face of network or
> server disconnection.
>
> I'm on Fedora 9, Evo 2.22.3.1. I get this problem several times a day
> and every now and again I swear I'm going to dump Evo and change to a
> different client (e.g. I've *never* had this problem with Thunderbird),
> but I guess I'm too used to it. At one time I even had a desktop icon to
> run "evolution --force-shutdown" ...

Thanks Patrick. I may end up making this icon myself as it seems to lock
up all the time for me. Does anyone have any explanations or solution to
this Evolution instability??
Jim