Re: [Evolution] Evolution is dying

[Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>]

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 16:06 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 14:47 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> > Hi all. Maybe I'm in the wrong place because my machine runs Ubuntu.
> > But I did install evolution as my default mailer, and I gotta say I fell
> > in love with it right away.
> > Now, a week later, I booted evolution this morning and found that it
> > doesn't remember any of my email passwords. I remembered them fine just
> > yesterday but not this morning. I had to enter a dozen passwords into
> > evolution one at a time, as it demanded them from me. I didn't mind that
> > so much but, when it checked my mail again, an hour later, it wanted all
> > the passwords AGAIN.
> > I can't live like that. What can I do to fix it?
>
> Short answer or long?
>
> Short answer: Use a stable distribution.  GNOME is broken on Ubuntu,
> they perform no QC and change things willy-nilly.

I got a little curious when I read this. I am using Ubuntu GNOME and do
not have any problems with GNOME other than that the latest GNOME
updates (of GNOME) take a little while to be made available. I have had
more trouble with GNOME on Arch, but I assume that's not what you mean
when you use the term "stable distribution" either? Are you talking
Debian stable, or would Fedora qualify in this regard?

> Long answer:  you are probably having under-the-covers NetworkManager
> and GNOME key-ring issues.  See the short answer.  But check your
> diagnostic longs and see if there are any related errors.  It might be
> that will tell you something useful.
>
> I use Evolution 7 days a week all day - I do not see these kinds of
> issues.


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//Christian