On Nov 29, 2007 6:58 AM, Jim McKean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I notice that a lot of people have had good luck with Evolution on
> opensuse 10.3. I have not.
>
>
> I have been using evolution since the Ximian days and it seems to be
> increasingly unstable (for me).

I'm still on 10.2, and Evolution is still about the same as it was
back in the Ximian days: lots of promise (especially the search
capability) but a few really annoying bugs that seem to have been
there since the beginning.

> My biggest problem at the moment is that
> I can reply only once in each session. When replying the second time,
> Evo locks and grays out. It does not release if I wait it out.

Evolution tends to lock-up n me for two reasons:

1) My Inbox is huge, and every 24 hours or so it locks up  as if there
were a memory leak gone hard.

2) Connecting to Exchange and LDAP servers for addresses is extremely
slow, usually, and occasionally locks up.

Your issue sounds like the latter.  Do you have any remote address
book servers?  If so, I'd remove them and see if the problem persists.

>
> evolution –force-shutdown will usually allow me to restart evolution,
> but then I cannot reply even once.

I don't quite trust that.  When Evolution locks up, I find everything
in the process queue with "evo" in it, and kill all the pids (i.e. "ps
auxww | grep evo", then kill all the pids returned).

>
> It treats a response to a calendar meeting request the same way.

Any remote calender servers involved?  Access to my companies exchange
server for calendar data is slow and sometimes broken for me, but
never causes a lockup.

Chris
>
> I can receive email and send new mails OK.
>
> Sometimes, it locks up the Gnome main menu bar, and once in a while, the
> whole Gnome Desktop.
>
> Usually the only way I can complete clear out the problem is to restart
> the X server. Sometimes I have to reboot.
>
> When I moved from 10.2 to 10.3, I backed up my /home directory,
> reformatted everything and installed from scratch, so I don't have any
> old libraries or corrupt binaries. I do have everything that was in my
> home directory, so I suppose I could have something corrupted in the
> those, but I would be surprised that it would have this behavior.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
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