Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:11 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > I have a neat little script which I use to get stack > > > traces: > > > > Good stuff! I modified it to just displ

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > I have a neat little script which I use to get stack > > traces: > > Good stuff! I modified it to just display the output on stdout, then I > can put it where I want it by hand. >

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > I have a neat little script which I use to get stack > > traces: > > Good stuff! I modified it to just display the output on stdout, then I > can put it where I want it by hand.

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I have a neat little script which I use to get stack > traces: Good stuff! I modified it to just display the output on stdout, then I can put it where I want it by hand. Just a note: if you add "set pagination off" to your GDB script,

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:57 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Actually, I'm not familiar with apport. Is this an Ubuntu thing? > > It is. As you can see in the script though, that that is only required > if you give my script a

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Actually, I'm not familiar with apport. Is this an Ubuntu thing? It is. As you can see in the script though, that that is only required if you give my script a /var/crash/ file. If you really wanted to, you could simply remove th

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:00 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > > > Description: > > > Description of problem: > > > Several times a day evoluti

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:00 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > Description: > > Description of problem: > > Several times a day evolution freezes, doesn't respond to > input or > > refresh its window.

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:02 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > These types of problems almost always require a stack trace of the > hung-up process. I have a neat little script which I use to get stack > traces: Thanks. Evolution has just hung, and I have put the script to use. jon

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:52 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:47 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > In this case that's right. In fact now that I've had some sleep I'd > > > recommend the OP to take a loo

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> "Devels" know about the bugs I am reporting. I really don't think lack > of bug reporting is the issue here. What appears (granted, from the > outside, so I only have one view) to be at issue here -- and Evolution > is not really any different than most other projects -- is that the > attractio

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:00 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Description: > Description of problem: > Several times a day evolution freezes, doesn't respond to input or > refresh its window. Generally, if I click on the window decoration to > delete the w

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I've seen occasional hangs with 2.26.3 Admittedly I am only using 2.26.1 (with a couple of patches from subsequent releases) but that's because nothing in any of the bugs that I have open indicate that a newer version will cure mai

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:47 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > In this case that's right. In fact now that I've had some sleep I'd > > recommend the OP to take a look at > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570438 since it's

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:50 -0400, Ben May wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:47 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > In this case that's right. In fact now that I've had some sleep I'd > > > recommend the OP to take a look at >

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Ben May
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:47 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > In this case that's right. In fact now that I've had some sleep I'd > > recommend the OP to take a look at > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570438 since it

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 09:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > In this case that's right. In fact now that I've had some sleep I'd > recommend the OP to take a look at > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570438 since it's an > LDAP-related problem I reported in February which Srini gave m

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 04:39 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 01:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:48 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > > Most importantly, you MUST always describe your environment > > > completely: > > > for Evo in particular this means wh

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 01:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:48 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > Most importantly, you MUST always describe your environment > > completely: > > for Evo in particular this means what type of email are you reading? > > Local spool? POP/POP3?

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:48 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Most importantly, you MUST always describe your environment > completely: > for Evo in particular this means what type of email are you reading? > Local spool? POP/POP3? IMAP? Exchange using the old > evolution-exchange backend? Exchange us

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability (was: Re: Evolution-list Digest, Vol 51, Issue 20)

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Please don't reply to digests. 1- The Subject is meaningless unless you edit it (see above) 2- It breaks the threading 3- In many cases (though not this time) clueless users quote the entire digest in order to reply to one message. Note that you can post via Gmane if you don't want to subscribe i

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:21 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Also, when mentioning a BZ report here on the list it's conventional to > > give the bug number (or better, the URL of the BZ page) in case someone > > wants to add anything. > > Also quite right. It's bug 528393. > https://bugz

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:00 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Have you reported them? Don't assume the devels know that there's a > > > problem, and don't just report

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:00 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Have you reported them? Don't assume the devels know that there's a > > problem, and don't just report it here as most devels don't read the > > list. > > Well, I did it.

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Have you reported them? Don't assume the devels know that there's a > problem, and don't just report it here as most devels don't read the > list. Well, I did it. Now I feel like an idiot. Briefly the description is "Evolution free

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 13:10 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:28 +, Philipp Kubina wrote: > > I am working with Evolution for a month now (Ubuntu 9.04, Evolution > > 2.26.1) and the instability is terrible (multiple crashes every day). > > I too have had chronic stabili

Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:28 +, Philipp Kubina wrote: > I am working with Evolution for a month now (Ubuntu 9.04, Evolution > 2.26.1) and the instability is terrible (multiple crashes every day). I too have had chronic stability problems with Evolution, namely evolution-2.26.3 running under Fed