Bug 863236

Created attachment 621806 [details]
Evolution backtrace 2

$ rpm -qa | grep evolution | sort
evolution-3.5.92-2.fc18.i686
evolution-data-server-3.5.92-1.fc18.i686
evolution-data-server-debuginfo-3.5.92-1.fc18.i686
evolution-debuginfo-3.5.92-2.fc18.i686
evolution-ews-3.5.92-1.fc18.i686
evolution-ews-debuginfo-3.5.92-1.fc18.i686

Created attachment 621808 [details]
Evolution screenshot

Created attachment 622655 [details]
Evolution backtrace 3

Created attachment 622656 [details]
Evolution screenshot

Thanks for a bug report. I see in the backtraces that one thread is searching for a contact photo of the message you selected, waiting for a response from the evolution-addressbook-factory, which blocks the other threads, also trying to search for contact's photo. It's OK to block other threads, but it's not OK to wait for the addressbook factory response that long. The evolution won't quit, because it requires all contact photo requests being finished.

Could you get a backtrace of running evolution-addressbook-factory, please? There should be shown what it is waiting for/trying to do. Thanks in advance.

I also see long waits (over 2 minutes for my current opened app to close and still waiting) for evolution to close, or not at all, whether there was an error or not.  Now, after reading above, I went back into my preferences and unchecked "show photograph" of emails from users.  Went to close it and still waiting.  Going to kill it and then reopen and see if has any issues with that preference unchecked (for now).  And after reopening evolution again, and then closing, it waited a bit (didn't time it, but was def under a minute) but it did close this time.

BTW, all I do with evolution or was doing this time around, was just clicking on emails and previewing emails, not even opening nor replying to any at the moment.

AND it's on KDE (I don't use gnome itself).

[mike@scrappy ~]$ rpm -qa |grep evolution
evolution-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64
evolution-bogofilter-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64
evolution-data-server-3.6.2-2.fc18.x86_64

Also, is this related to..

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880825

(In reply to comment #8)
> Also, is this related to..
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880825

Maybe, I'm still not sure. It seems to me that the common part is the status bar, being full of pending actions. The backtrace from comment #4 shows the main thread repainting a window. If I recall correctly, the CPU usage is also higher than usually. That all can be related or not, though the redraws and higher CPU usage is probably caused by the spinner redraw. I have a test application, which emulates it too, though it doesn't have influence on parts I would expect, like delivery of an idle callback.

Still takes a bit to close but so far does indeed close though.  And no bugs like I was getting when had the photograph options turned on, whereas with that option off, no crashes as of yet.

I have the same problem, most of the time  evolution bar is full of pending action and won't close, that's painfully anoying when you use it everyday to have to kill the process to quit. And it make my notebook heat a lot ...

There were done changes for 3.6.4 which should (fully or partially) address this issue. The date for a release is not set yet, but I guess it'll be done within a week or two.

I still got the problem, I am still not able to close my evolution, all widgets in the window are desactivated but the window stay. It has been month now that this problem exist...

It is VERY frustrating.

Maël, did you update to 3.6.4 of (all) evolution package(s)?

Yes I have a fedora 18 setup fully updated, Evolution is version 3.6.4

OK, thanks. I thought it's like updating only evolution, but not evolution-data-server, but as you have the machine fully updated, then that's OK. One possible thing would be bug #953641. Could you try to downgrade gcr and do the other steps as described in that bug report?

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