On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Arthur Machlas <arthur.mach...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was experiencing something similar. Still am perhaps, it's not quite > as reliable as yours is, though if I started it in Calendar or Address > Book tab, or else quickly switched to those it would freeze the whole > desktop and require switching to VT1 to kill it. > > I ran gdb evolution but was almost always unable to reproduce the > lockup. Just once I got a useful (seemingly message) > > Program received signal SIGSEV, Segmentation fault. > 0x00007fffef0bf001 in g_type_check_instance_cast () > from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 > > Haven't tried a strace on it yet, because like I said I can't reliably > reproduce. What I did notice was the when running from the terminal I > rarely got lockups, and when launching from the menu pretty frequent > lockups. I changed the launcher from command "evolution > --component-mail" or something like that, to just "evolution". It > seems to have helped, though I haven't bee testing it out long enough > to be sure. > > Regards, > AM
This was in response to another thread, I guess I didn't address it properly. Original info below. "Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2010, 12:07 +0100 schrieb Sean Carlos: > I'm using Evolution primarily for its address book functionality. > > When I click on a contact, I very often find, but not always, that > almost everything freezes. I can move my mouse, but I cannot interact > with any part of the gnome desktop, Evolution included. Alt+Tab still > works, so if I already have a terminal window open, I can bring it into > focus and then kill the evolution process. If I kill evolution, > interaction with the desktop is restored. > Any ideas? Either run evolution in gdb (see http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml ), or if that does not provide any interesting output maybe strace might be an option. andre " _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
