evolution hangs

[b49P23TIvg]

To confirm the trouble wearch the internet for
evolution hangs saving user interface

Thanks, Dave.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 30 11:36:36 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-03 (727 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=dumb
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (37 days ago)

[Tony Martin (tmartin-nihonsuki)]

I can also confirm this bug. Almost always crashes out this way. Have to kill it manually.

[b49P23TIvg (b49p23tivg)]

When evolution owners changed from open office to Libre Office and the
various folders relocated within the directory I did not understand how
to make the transition; it went poorly. Could this be related to the
trouble? Thank you for confirming the problem. Dave.

On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 16:14 +0000, Tony Martin wrote:
> I can also confirm this bug. Almost always crashes out this way. Have
> to kill it manually.
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg)]

This started happening to me a few days ago too...

There are 2 warnings on the terminal:
(evolution:28155): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Failed to write data to cache stream: Operation was cancelled

Any ideas?

[Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg)]

Another data point:
In Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> HTML Messages, checking the ''Never load images from the Internet" options solves the problem for me. The "Unknown background operation" status notifications go away when I do this.

This leads me to believe that the bug is related to webkit html mail display fetching images gone awry.

This still happens with the update to Quantal's evolution of today (Jan 18).

[b49P23TIvg (b49p23tivg)]

I haven't had to externally kill evolution since updating my software a few days ago. I'm hopeful that the program improved. It was quite a nuisance---every time I wrote a message I had to save a copy of the text before sending so it wouldn't be lost. I was restarting evolution 8 times a day or so, and I'm certainly no email "use" record holder.
Thank you.

[b49P23TIvg (b49p23tivg)]

Whooops! Actually I also followed advice
Conrad Steenberg (conrad-steenberg) wrote on 2013-01-18: #6
Another data point:
In Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> HTML Message
check the ''Never load images from the Internet" option

I'll bet that solved the problem rather than a change to evolution.

[Valentin Žagar (gintrnis)]

This and similar problem is present in ubuntu 12.10 from begining. I can not handle mails properly with bugy webkit...

[Valentin Žagar (gintrnis)]

use thunderbird - no problems and with exchange 2007-2010 plugins, useful in business environment