Bug 444638

Summary:	[RHEL5.2] Evolution freezes while loading webcal
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Mauricio Teixeira <mteixeira>
Component:	evolution-data-server	Assignee:	Milan Crha <mcrha>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version:	5.2	CC:	djuran, helpdesk-rnd, huzaifas, mbarnes, riek, syeghiay, tao
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Description Mauricio Teixeira 2008-04-29 17:43:18 UTC

Description of problem:

Evolution freezes for a while when trying to load a calendar stored in Zimbra 5
server, using webcal protocol.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ rpm -qa | grep evolution
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5
evolution-data-server-devel-1.12.3-6.el5
evolution-connector-2.12.3-4.el5
syncevolution-0.5-3.rhis
evolution-webcal-2.7.1-6
evolution-data-server-1.12.3-6.el5

How reproducible:

Create a webcal connection, using SSL, to a Zimbra 5 server. Make sure the
calendar has at least a few entries. Go to the calendar window, and see
Evolution freezing until it refreshes the data.
  
Actual results:

Evolution freezes for a few seconds, then works fine for a while until it needs
to refresh the calendar again.

Expected results:

No freezes at all.

Additional info:

Running Evolution in debug mode gives the following output in the log:

(evolution:15824): calendar-gui-CRITICAL **: e_week_view_add_event: assertion
`start < add_event_data->week_view->day_starts[num_days]' failed

I guess this is somehow related.

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-05-07 04:16:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Running Evolution in debug mode gives the following output in the log:
> 
> (evolution:15824): calendar-gui-CRITICAL **: e_week_view_add_event: assertion
> `start < add_event_data->week_view->day_starts[num_days]' failed
> 
> I guess this is somehow related.

I doubt it.  Sounds like the problem is Evolution is doing blocking network I/O
in the main UI thread.  That's generally forbidden for this very reason.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2008-07-24 20:22:21 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".