Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 208724
Hangs if clicing on "Send/Receive"
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:44 EST
Description of problem: Hangs on SMTP is clicking on the "Send/Receive" button. Note: There is no mail in the outbox pending to be sent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.8.0-6.fc6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start evolution 2. click on send/receive button 3. Actual results: send/receive dialog stays forever, indicating that the smtp sending is not finished. Abort does nothing, but closing the dialog with the close button works. But after this any mail sent gets stuck in the outbox. Expected results: dialog should finish. mail should continue to be sent as usual. Additional info: evolution from Core 5 works fine with the same configuration and messages the outbox (dual-boot with shared home directory). configuration is using mailserver:587 (msa port) with TLS encryption cram-md5 authentication, but it appears the same problem is seen on plain SMTP configuration.
If the send/receive problem does not show up the first time, click on it rapidly a few times and it should show up..
exactly the same problem in my case. Might be also a server related problem in my case - server not responding (as in 80% of cases it works fine.) However, shouldn't there be some reasonable time-outs on sending/receiving ???
In my case it's defenitely NOT server load. Server is actually the same machine noe, and practically idle, even if the IMAP software is rather old.. (RH9, running in a chroot now after a hdd failure on the old server).
*** Bug 212499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Having this problem too. It used to happen on occasion with earlier versions, but since upgrading to FC6 it happens 99% of the time. Usually the hang occurs while updating one of my IMAP accounts but sometimes it occurs during SMTP send and the email remains in the local outbox. Only solution is to keep kill -9'ing evolution and restarting it until it doesn't hang.
I confirm this problem; if I hit "Send/Receive" then the same thing happens; sometimes on one of my two IMAP accounts, other times on the default outbound SMTP server. I'm running strace on a cleanly started process at the moment; it seems the main evo process (as opposed to any of the sub-processes like the data server etc) is spinning on a UNIX socket, repeating the content in the following attachment. Hitting "cancel" either on the stuck 'session' or 'cancel all' results in no change; closing the dialogue by hitting the close window button takes me back to evo but I can't do anything related to getting new mail or sending when I'm there. As in Comment #5 the only thing I can do is send a SIGKILL, which then spits several segfaults into the trace.
Created attachment 142232 [details] 10000 repeating lines of strace output PID 20402 is main evolution process
Correction to Comment #6: hitting the close window button takes me back to evolution where I can happily change folders, whereupon I get a refreshed folder view. However, the folder view does not seem to be refreshing itself. So the send/receive window hangs up, but is closeable. As an addendum here, occasionally when trying to quit evolution it hangs up - and an strace indicates the same symptom - spin,spin,socket...
Bug 217568 has a fix for this, and a change e_msgport_wait behaviour in rawhide also fixed this.
Fixed in evolution-data-server-1.8.2-2.fc6.
Still no sign of this FC6 update on the update servers, almost 5 days later..