Re: [Evolution] Evolution hangs

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 12:07 -0600, Anil Philip wrote:
> I see on the status bar, "Retrieving message 000234343 (0% complete)",
> "refreshing folder (personal) 0% complete", "scanning for changed
> messages (100% complete)"
> for a long time.... I have to kill evolution from a terminal.
> don't know why... 

It's a very old bug (or set of bugs) which has still not been completely
solved, though it happens less than it used to. Killing Evo (with
--force-shutdown) is the only fix I know of.

BTW, when asking questions about Evo it's important to state what
version you're using. Look under Help->About.

poc