Re: [Evolution] infinitive wait for network events

[Eugene <eugene bct bz>]

On 05/06/2013 05:51 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > For many releases, including the latest in Fedora 18
> Please give version numbers for Evolution, not the distro you use - not
> everyone uses the same distro so they don't know which versions you are
> talking about.
F18 is 3.6.4
> > I've noticing that evolution does not handle network delays properly.
> > It will spin in wait state indefinitely. Please see included
> > screenshot. I wonder how to diagnose and prevent infinitive waits. The
> > only way to end the process is to to brute force kill signals.
> This has been talked about before on this list.  Yes, it is a known
> issue, but I seem to remember that the solution requires some other work
> to be done first.  My experience of the issue is that many of the
> problems stem from looking up contacts on a remote service (so that Evo
> can decide if it's going to try and display images from the network) -
> it's not the LDAP code itself that's the problem, more the type of
> traffic that LDAP generates.  So try enabling "Never load images from
> the Internet" (you can always explicitly load them with Ctrl-I) to see
> if it makes it any better.
If it is a well known problem I am surprised it is not yet fixed. Not 
sure about LDAP but load images is not enabled. Regardless, if any 
network operation takes more then reasonable time it should either abort 
itself or allow user to abort it.

I this case clicking on the red circle next to stuck network operation 
does not make any effect on the stuck network operation! Several 
releases ago clicking on the red circle always terminated stuck network 
operation.

Main reason I started this thread is to seek diagnostic help as I 
clearly stated in my question. I apologize if inline attachment caused 
problems.

I've been using evolution since early betas and the only reason I still 
on it because sometimes I must use "redirect" feature that is missing in 
thunderbird. But amount of daily problems caused by unhanded timeouts 
and other glitches makes me question myself if fighting constant issues 
really worth the trouble....

Eugene.