Re: [Evolution] No echo on typing; Slow start -- Perplexing Messages

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 13:40 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>     On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 13:31 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> >         On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 17:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 14:32 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > > (No echo) Frequently evolution does not echo what I type into it, either
> > > > header or text; this can usually be fixed by quitting evolution and
> > > > restarting it.  Occasionally, it "stutters"; that is echo stops while
> > > > I'm entering text, then resumes after a while, showing text that was
> > > > typed in while echoing was off.
> > >
> > > I remember something similar a few releases back, but not recently. Try
> > > checking the list archives.
> > >
> > > > (Slow start) Clicking on an email link in Firefox there is a perceptible
> > > > pause (5 or 10 seconds) before evolution pops up its composition window.
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone seen anything like this?
> > > > 
> > > > System:
> > > > 
> > > >         Evolution-3.2.3
> > > >         Fedora-16 with all updates
> > > >         KDE-4.8.1
> > > >         AMD x86_64 1-processor hardware.
> > >
> > > No such issues here on a very similar setup (Intel Core 2 Duo but I
> > > doubt that's the problem). Could you be checking something remotely,
> > > e.g. an LDAP server?
> > >         
> >         A couple of more things: I can provoke "no echo" behavior reliably by starting to compose a message in "HTML" mode and then switching to "Plain Text".  In fact, simply clicking on the "HTML/Plain Text" dropdown menu without changing mode can cause this.  While evolution is in a "no echo" state, it responds to mouse clicks OK, but to nothing from the keyboard.
> >         
> >         Evolution was started from a console, and has reported no errors (a very unusual situation).
> >         
> >         Any ideas on how to debug?  The situation is do bad that I may have to switch mail readers on short notice.
> >     
>     A little more info: I'm now getting large numbers of errors reading:
>         (evolution:7706): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_device_grab_remove: assertion `GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed
>     Also clicking on almost any pulldown or entry box seems to cause trouble, either troubles using the keyboard
>     or complete evolution lockup (no access from keyboard or mouse).
I'm trying to build evolution so as to look at the file referred to by the "Gtk-CRITICAL message above, but have
met problems:
    The sources for evolution don't include a file called evolution.c
    I can't get evolution-data-server to build because:
        $ rpmbuild -bp SPECS/evolution-data-server.spec                                                                                     
        error: Failed build dependencies:                                                                                                                 
        openldap-evolution-devel is needed by evolution-data-server-3.2.3-2.fc16.x86_64

        # yum install openldap-evolution-devel
        Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
        Package matching openldap-devel-2.4.26-1.fc16.1.x86_64 already installed. Checking for update.
        Nothing to do
    Note that rpmbuild wants openldap-evolution-devel and yum finds openldap-devel

?Que Pasa?

Thanks - jon