I can confirm this bug -- it bit me today on up-to-date hardy, and seems very
likely to be an issue with evolution's Google calendar support. My timeline:
* Used hardy for months, no problems
* Added a google calendar to evolution (Using New -> Calendar -> Type:
Google). Discovered that it didn't work (it seemed to add the calendar, but
never showed any events). Poked and prodded it for a bit; gave up.
* Continued to use hardy for a few weeks, no problems
* A few hours ago, discovered that clicking on the clock applet in the panel
caused the background to go "depressed" and then the entire panel to freeze.
This is perfectly consistent -- restarting the panel, rebooting, etc. all cause
the panel to start working again, but it freezes as soon as I click on the
clock.
* I opened evolution and discovered that it had, somehow, in the last day or
so, decided to actually start loading the google calendar.
* I deleted the google calendar from evolution, and restarted the panel; now
it works fine.
So the timing makes it look like some issue with that calendar -- when
the calendar appeared, my panel stopped working, and removing the
calendar fixed the panel.
Further details: I have other webcal calendars in evolution (New ->
Calendar -> Type: "On the web"), also pulled from google, as it happens,
but not using the Google "calendar type" and not requiring
authentication. So it may be something specific to the special Google
support plugin.
Since the "Type: Google" option didn't work, I also tried adding the
same calendar as a generic webcal feed. It prompted for authentication
etc., but never loaded events, and still hasn't. Possibly if it ever
starts loading events it will freeze my panel too. So it may be
something specific to authenticating to google over webcal, I dunno.
The google calendar in question is in a Google Apps For Your Domain
account.
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: gnome-panel => evolution
Status: Invalid => New
** Summary changed:
- [Hardy Beta] calendar applet freezes Gnome Panel
+ [Hardy] Google calendar in evolution freezes Gnome Panel
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[Hardy] Google calendar in evolution freezes Gnome Panel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214573
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