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

2009-10-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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Re: [Evolution] stability/stability

2009-10-12 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 using

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? IMAP?

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 what type of

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 me a

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's an

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 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 an

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 mail

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

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 attraction of

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. Generally,

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

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

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 stability

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

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. Now I

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 it here

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.