On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:55 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 17:46 +0100, Harald Beck wrote: > > Hi guys, > > here is some feedback to version 2.26 running under ubuntu. > > First, I encountered a couple of very annoying bugs: (No, I don't want > > to engage in Bugzilla; sorry.) > > * In the calender view, where tasks and memos appear on the right, the > > memo list is empty, though there are memos listed in the memo view. > > * Evolution crashes (!) each time I edit a previously created > > appointment to make it an recurring event. So if I forgot to specify > > that at the time of creation, I have to delete it first, and create it > > again, making sure I edit the recurrence information before closing the > > formular. > I use 2.26.3 on Debian (Ubuntu is based on Debian so they're very > similar) and haven't experienced this.
I'd suggest the solution is to stop using Ubuntu which seems to experience above-average instability. My Evolution doesn't crash or hang. > > * If I start the computer from hibernating (having Evolution started > > before hibernating), I'm prompted for the password for one of my two > > mail accounts -- without effect (endless loop); so I have to cancel. > > This does not happen, if I shutdown the computer, and start Evolution as > > usual. (That problem seemed to be linked with using ubuntu; but why does > > it work for the other account!?) > this is very likely a network ACPI thing. Especially if your on > wireless. Most systems resume slowly after hibernating and your likely > not getting your network connect back up as fast as you might expect > it. Have you tried a webpage or pinging something at the same time as > it's asks you for your pass? Ditto. After suspend/resume the wireless can occasionally take a L-O-N-G time. Seems much improved as of late [openSUSE 11.1] but I may just not have seen it since I don't suspend/resume very often. > > There are other suggestions which are not bugs, but they shall not > > concern us here. > > I could live with the bugs above for some time, but: Today I started > > Evolution, and ALL calendar, task and memo entries were gone! The > > according lists to file them are still here, but no items. In other > > words, without doing anything, all information is gone and I have no > > clue why. Yikes. > > I enjoyed using evolution more and more since I started using it a > > couple of months ago and so I managed to live with the mentioned bugs > > which were indeed annoying. You are way more tolerant than I would be. > > But I cannot possibly use a software that deletes stored information, or > > stores it in such a way that it cannot be retrieved. What you have experienced is not by any means "normal". Evolution has never eaten my data. > Short of a drive failure of some sort I highly doubt Evo deleted your > data. It must be there somewhere...Post the findings from your below > suggestion and someone here will get to the bottom of this. > > Well, I might go now browse ~/.evolution and see whether I can do > > anything about, but hey, I wanna USE this software and not hack it. > > Hope that helps & looking forward to a (much) more mature version, > > Harald > Don't loose hope so quick. Evo is quite mature already ;) Evolution does provide a backup option too. Although it has never eaten my data I use that regularly. -- openSUSE <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> Linux for human beings who need to get things done. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
