Re: [Evolution] unknown background operation

[Garry Ricketson <garry garryricketsonartworks com>]

On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 12:00 +0000, evolution-list-request gnome org
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:54:26 -0600
> From: Garry Ricketson <garry garryricketsonartworks com>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: [Evolution] unkown background operation
> Message-ID: <1422766466 6355 5 camel debian>
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> Hello every one, I am new to this list and also a first time user of
> this "evolution". 
>  It seems to be working fine, but at the bottom of the screen I see a
> red stop sign thing, and it says "unknown background operation", I am
> wondering what that means, how can I find out what the "background
> operation is, ? I find it disturbing that it is doing something in the
> "background" that I do not know what it is doing,..If you need more
> details , let me know what details are needed, thank you\from Garr
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:08:05 +0000
> From: Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] unkown background operation
> Message-ID: <1422785285 30087 13 camel biggs org uk>
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> On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 22:54 -0600, Garry Ricketson wrote:
> > Hello every one, I am new to this list and also a first time user of
> > this "evolution". 
>
> My advice to people who are new to a mailing list is usually to lurk a
> while or at least look through and search archives to get an idea of
> how
> things work.  In this case you would notice that virtually every time
> someone asks a question, someone else will ask for the Evolution
> version
> number and possibly their environment (type of mail account, distro,
> GUI, that sort of thing).
>
> So, what is your Evolution version and what sort of mail account are
> we
> talking about here. (Version info is at Help -> About)
>
> >  It seems to be working fine, but at the bottom of the screen I see
> a
> > red stop sign thing, and it says "unknown background operation", I
> am
> > wondering what that means, how can I find out what the "background
> > operation is, ?
>
> You can't - it's unknown. i.e. Evolution hasn't been told what
> something
> is doing when it posts that message.  You could possibly try doing
> back
> traces and the like but it's not trivial and you may not get very far.
>
> >  I find it disturbing that it is doing something in the
> > "background" that I do not know what it is doing,..
>
> Applications do lots of things in the background - for instance mail
> programs like Evolution retrieve mail in the background, process
> indexes, spam checking, filtering,  process virtual folders and so on.
> If it didn't do lots of things in the background you would spend most
> of
> the time waiting for tasks to complete unable to use the program.
>
> What I suspect that this error means is that one part of the program
> has
> initiated a background process, but that process hasn't yet told the
> gui
> what it's doing, so it is an "unknown background operation".  I know
> that such things did appear in old versions of Evolution - which is
> why
> it's important to know what version you are running.
>
> P.
>
>
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 Ok, thank you, it is :  3.4.4 group ware suite, I am using Debian
"wheezy" 7.8 kernel linux 3.2.0-4,GNOME 3.4.2 
But it sounds to me like it is not unusual, or basicly normal to be
running processes in the "background" when it starts up, and they are
"unknown" because they have not yet been completed, so this makes sense,
I guess it is nothing to worry about. Once it is completely started
there are no errors or warnings.
thank you