Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 102659
evolution get stuck on the send & receive window
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:56:58 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: using kernel Linux little.lethalwp 2.4.20-19.9 #1 Tue Jul 15 17:18:13 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux and glibc-2.3.2-27.9 sometimes, when i press the send & receive mail button, the s&r window appear and gets stuck, pressing cancel doesn't help. It seems this happens when evolution gets swapped out on the hdd, then swapped in again (when asking to re-display evolution) this is very annoying & it's not easy to trigger, to get rid of the problem i have to killev & restart it again Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-1.2.2-5 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.start evolution 2.make it swapped out by running some very big memory eating tasks, (i was playing with mplayer to see how it works when all overlay slots were used at that time and did a for i in `seq 35 `; do ( mplayer -ss 0:0:55 mnk-qa.avi &>/dev/null & ) ; done ), but i don't recomend this method ;) 3. killall mplayer 4. press send & receive button Actual Results: send/receive window appears, and it's stuck Expected Results: getting mail from pop Additional info:
I haven't seen this. Can you get an strace or a backtrace in gdb of what evolution is doing when this occurs?
I am seeing this identical problem with Redhat 9 and all the updates. It seems to have started happening recently. This could be either because of some update or because I have recently been doing some memory intensive work that might cause evolution to swap out to disk. I will run evolution with strace, but I could probably give better information if someone gave me a lesson in how strace works and what information is desired.
I tried strace, but I couldn't get evolution to freeze up at that moment and the file grows fairly quickly so I am a bit worried about leaving it on for long periods of time. Is there a way to just save the last so many bytes of information?
Created attachment 94861 [details] bzip2 of an strace on evolution This trace is the result of running: strace -o evo.trace.txt evolution &
I now have an strace of evolution from a time when it runs into the bug that causes it to hang. This bug is exceedingly annoying and basically happens every time I want to do real work. All I have to do is use up a lot of memory with another program for a time (it seems to require that I am away from evolution for at least 5 minutes), and then when I go back to evolution to look at my mail it is all hung up. Not only will it not download, but it won't display mail either.
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