Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:10 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:28 +0000, Philipp Kubina wrote:
> > I am working with Evolution for a month now (Ubuntu 9.04, Evolution
> > 2.26.1) and the instability is terrible (multiple crashes every day).
>
> I too have had chronic stability problems with Evolution, namely
> evolution-2.26.3 running under Fedora 11 with all upgrades on an x86_64
> system.
>
> Several times a day evolution crashes, doesn't respond to input or
> refresh its window.  Generally, if I click on the window decoration to
> delete the window, the window manager (gnome) puts up an error box that
> evolution is not responding and asking if I want it killed.  When I
> respond yes and restart evolution it runs fine for a while, then crashes
> again after a while.  Sometimes no box appears (evolution must be
> responding to a message from the window manager, though nothing is
> visible on the screen), and in this case evolution has to be killed from
> a command window.  All of these crashes seem to be quite random: the
> evolution window can be visible on hidden (when visible) displaying or
> composing mail or doing nothing.

I've seen occasional hangs with 2.26.3 but no crashes that I can recall.
I'm using KDE but in all other respects I have the same setup as you. If
you get an actual crash -- Evo just disappears for example -- look at
the end of /var/log/messages to see if some component had a fatal error
and if so then definitely report it either to the Fedora BZ or to the
Gnome one.

> Has there been any progress fixing these crashes lately?

Have you reported them? Don't assume the devels know that there's a
problem, and don't just report it here as most devels don't read the
list.

> Evolution-2.26.3 is the latest from the Fedora repositories, but the
> evolution web site states that 2.28.0 is now out.

And will appear with Fedora 12 in a few weeks time, not before. The
Fedora and Gnome releases tend to be in sync every 6 months (not
counting bugfixes).

poc