I think you should file a report (or maybe two) on Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org).
poc On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 05:22 -0400, Brian L Scipioni wrote: > In case anyone's interested here is what I have found: > > My problem started in the first place due to a few runaway processes on > a server (the mail machine also). The saturated CPUs resulted in very > slow response and NFS timeouts. The issue is how this is handled by a > multi-threaded volution. In this case it created a corrupted downloaded > message. > > I seems to me that when, for whatever reason, Evolution has trouble > getting a response, it easily leads to either race conditions or > deadlocks. I can't prove it, but the symptoms are there. It has > happened to me many times. Usually I get a deadlock and have to kill > the process - sometimes remotely. This time I got a race condition > while reading/writing my Inbox file. It resulted in a single email > repeated with over 3 million lines - a 180 MB message. When I cat-ed > out the good parts before and after the corrupted message - I was able > to recover all the mail I had lost in the Inbox. (There was nothing > wrong with the original message on the email server which I had accessed > many times). > > It took a long time for me to figure out what was wrong, since whenever > I brought up Evolution, it crashed immediately while trying to read its > folders. My advice for others in this situation - copy all the email > files to somewhere else and add them back to .evolution/mail/local one > or several at a time until you find the bad one. > > The developers might want to validate downloaded message formats to > prevent this. > > Also they might want to make thread synchronization more robust to > prevent these race/deadlocks. > > Often, after I add/update a Contact in my LDAP server through Evolution, > that thread locks up/dies while the email editor seems to continue on > its merry way as if nothing has happened. I have to kill the program to > repair my LDAP connection. > > thanks, > - > Brian L Scipioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Anyone know how to validate/reset the .evolution tree without > > trashing > > > it? > > > > I'd also like to know ... > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
