Re: [Evolution] Evolution 3.6.0 hangs with a large number of unknown jobs

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

see inline notes below


On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 19:21 -0800, Per wrote:
>                 then you are probably affected by bug #686810 [0].
>         
>         
>         No, it does not appear to be associated with HTML emails. 
>                 
>                 Otherwise, make sure you have -debug packages for
>                 Evolution, Gtk+ and glib
>                 installed and attach GDB to Evolution:

First start evolution
When evolution hangs, then 
>                 
>                 gdb /usr/bin/evolution `pidof evolution`
>                 
>                 and get a full backtrace:
                   set logging file /tmp/evobacktrace.txt
                   set logging on
>                 
>                  thread apply all bt full
                   you will likely have to hit enter several times to
                   page through the full backtrace 
                   attach the backtrace to a bugreport.


What you did below was not quite right; per above.
>         Ok. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. I ran the command as
>         above (including the `pidof evolution` string; should there be
>         an actual PID in there?). Once gdb is started I type run to
>         start Evo. Evo after 30 min or so hangs with a number of jobs
>         (including some Unknown ones; see attached screenshot). At the
>         same time Evo was downloading emails (8 pop accounts). Evo
>         then froze and was unresponsive to me pressing any of the
>         cancel buttons. CPU utilization was 100%. Only way to shut
>         down Evo was to kill it manually.
>         
>         
>         After Evo was killed I typed in your last command, and got in
>         return a blank line.
>         
>         
>         Am I doing something wrong debugging Evo, or is this the
>         expected behavior when the app is killed? Sorry if if this
>         question is lame, but I have no idea what to expect with the
>         process you outlined.
>         
>
>
> Sorry for posting this again.
>
>
> The problem outlined above is recurring (mutliple times per day). It
> seems to start with a task called "Saving user interface", at which
> point Evo freezes. At least twice this happened in conjunction with a
> 'Retrieving Message xxxxx' message shown in the message pane (which
> never disppears). CPU goes to ~50%. Gradually, a whole bunch of
> 'Unknown' tasks are spawned; seems CPU usage then goes up eventually
> hitting 100%.
>
>
> I'd like to file a bug report, but due to my apparent inability to use
> the gdb tool properly am unable to do so.
>
>
> Can someone point out for me further directions for debugging this
> issue?