Hi Ritesh; On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 01:26 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:22 -0400, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? Is it a bug? > > > > Every now and them my compose window freezes and freezes all other > > applications on my machine. My hard drive comes on and continues to run > > for no apparent reason. The CPU does not seem to be being used but can > > only recognize a keyboard or mouse command every 10 - 30 seconds or so. > Is there a way to reproduce this reliably ? > No. Sometime it goes for months without happening. That is why I have left it for so long without looking for a fix.
> > > > The only way out is to Ctrl-Alt-Fx; login as root killall -u user and > > reboot. It feels like the compose widow has set up a loop. I say feels > reboot ? Is the system thrashing ? > Probably. Have tried to get a look at the swap file but run out of patience waiting for my system monitor. Don't know how to follow swap/memory usage at command line. I will find out now. > > like because I have been unable to catch it with top or see if a > > continuous swap has been going on. > > If disk is thrashing, open up a terminal, and shutdoen evolution, set > memory limits and startup evolution from the terminal. > > $ evolution --force-shutdown > $ ulimits -v 500000 > $ evolution > Will try. Haven't been able to get gterm working while window frozen. Will use xterm (C-A-Fx) next time. That always seems available. > > Try obtaining a bt of evolution from command line, this might help the > developer. ( http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces ) > New learning curve. > > > > It is not a new problem. I have had it happen to me in FC5, FC6 and now > > F-7. This freezing is rare and seems random, but persistent. > Have you filled a bugzilla for the same ? > No. Was asking here first if others have the problem. On some things, like filing bugs, I am a novice. I wanted to be sure I have a bug and not just a case of stupidity. > > > > > Is there any way I can capture what is happening. message log doesn't > > seem to reveal anything. > > ps: i am not a evolution developer. > > -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
