Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when trying to compose email

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 21:08 -0400, Ken Wright via evolution-list wrote:
> I Googled how to install the most recent Flatpak,
> and it appears to be working properly now.

        Hi,
it would be still good to know what caused Evolution to freeze. I
understood from your description that the app is not crashing, but it's
frozen. That's slightly different thing. You can check what Evolution
is doing (or what it is waiting for) when you run it under gdb. Ideally
have installed debug information packages for glib, gtk3, libsoup3,
evolution-data-server and evolution at least, then run:

   $ gdb evolution --ex r

from a terminal. Once you reproduce the problem, switch to the terminal
and press Ctrl+C, which will bring you to the gdb prompt, where you can
run gdb commands. Two interesting are:

   (gdb) bt
   (gdb) t a a bt

The first prints the backtrace of the current active thread, which
might be the main/UI thread, which is blocked, thus the app is
unresponsive for the desktop environment. The second prints backtrace
for all threads, which gives a little idea what the app is doing.
Please check the output for any private information, like passwords,
email addresses, server addresses,... I usually search for "pass" at
least (quotes for clarity only), before sharing it anywhere.

You can either "continue" to keep the evolution running, or you can
quit gdb with the "quit" command.

Preceding lines from the gdb run can contain related information too,
in a form of runtime warnings printed in the terminal. It's not those
"Thread Created" nor "Thread Exited", which are printed by the gdb and
whose is there a lot for sure.

        Bye,
        Milan