Re: [Evolution] Opening Evolution contact in address book freezes Evolution, Gnome

[Arthur Machlas <arthur machlas gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Arthur Machlas
<arthur machlas gmail com> wrote:
> I was experiencing something similar. Still am perhaps, it's not quite
> as reliable as yours is, though if I started it in Calendar or Address
> Book tab, or else quickly switched to those it would freeze the whole
> desktop and require switching to VT1 to kill it.
>
> I ran gdb evolution but was almost always unable to reproduce the
> lockup. Just once I got a useful (seemingly message)
>
> Program received signal SIGSEV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007fffef0bf001 in g_type_check_instance_cast ()
> Âfrom /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>
> Haven't tried a strace on it yet, because like I said I can't reliably
> reproduce. What I did notice was the when running from the terminal I
> rarely got lockups, and when launching from the menu pretty frequent
> lockups. I changed the launcher from command "evolution
> --component-mail" or something like that, to just "evolution". It
> seems to have helped, though I haven't bee testing it out long enough
> to be sure.
>
> Regards,
> AM

This was in response to another thread, I guess I didn't address it
properly. Original info below.

"Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2010, 12:07 +0100 schrieb Sean Carlos:
> I'm using Evolution primarily for its address book functionality.
>
> When I click on a contact, I very often find, but not always, that
> almost everything freezes.  I can move my mouse, but I cannot interact
> with any part of the gnome desktop, Evolution included.  Alt+Tab still
> works, so if I already have a terminal window open, I can bring it into
> focus and then kill the evolution process.  If I kill evolution,
> interaction with the desktop is restored.
> Any ideas?

Either run evolution in gdb (see
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml ), or if that does not
provide any interesting output maybe strace might be an option.

andre
"