Unfortunately, the problem does not occur when evolution is run from gdb - attaching the jpeg file to a new email succeeds. However, the attached tar contains file gdb-evolution.txt for completeness. It shows the state of things after a jpeg has been successfully attached to a new email.
Next I started evolution from a terminal (not running under gdb) and tried again. The bug was in evidence. I was running 'top' in another terminal window, and it is showed evolution consuming nearly all of the cpu with its virtual memory usage continually growing. It took a bit of doing, but I was able to 'kill -ABRT' evolution and get a core dump (which is 2.4 gigabytes!). The file gdb-evolution-where.txt in the tar shows the result of loading the core file into gdb and issuing a 'where' command. The problem seems only to occur when 'Icon View' (rather than 'List View') is selected in the attachment bar. ** Attachment added: "gdb-evolution.tar" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33597760/gdb-evolution.tar -- attaching jpeg to email results in 100% cpu utilization https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448041 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
