Ubuntu
evolution-data-server package

  1. Bug #175233
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 175233

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Steven Willis (onlynone) wrote : Re: evolution hangs after several hours

I'm seeing this problem all the time with Hardy.

$ apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
  Installed: 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.22.2-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy-security/main Packages
     2.22.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy/main Packages

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

Usually Evolution hangs on "Formatting Message..." several times a day, it never recovers but I can read emails by double clicking on them. The type of email doesn't seem to be a trigger, sometimes it's on HTML emails, sometimes on plaintext. It's not reproducible, if evolution hangs on a message, and I kill it with "/usr/bin/evolution --force-shutdown", and restart, I'll be able to display the problem message just fine. I'm using Evolution to connect to my company's Exchange server.

Anyway, I finally got annoyed enough to run it under gdb. Strangely, it didn't hang for an entire day when I did this, and actually seemed much more responsive. After about 24 hours it hung and I ctrl-c'd it from gdb and got a backtrace with "thread apply all bt". The issue appears to be in thread 1273.