I have two computers, one on 11.04 x64 running Xfce (this is my main computer) and another one on 10.10 x32 running Xfce (this is a Netbook, Unity is way too slow to even think it could run on a Netbook). Ever since the upgrade to 11.04 on my main computer, things started failing really bad. Evolution is the worst so far, since it freezes the whole desktop. I have to switch to a virtual terminal in order to kill Evolution.
This seems to happen only on 11.04 and not on 10.10, and as described above, it happens whenever I go to the contacts and in my case, whenever I click, no matter where. For some reason, right after the upgrade to 11.04, it didn't have this problem. It came a few weeks later. Strangely enough, when the desktop freezes I can not click on anything, but my Xfce panels are still active and handle mouse over/out events (changes transparency) and the plugins are still working. The CPU shows no increase in activity (Evolution is idle) and there is no increase in memory usage. This strangely seems like a deadlock to me, however the fact the desktop does not handle any mouse or keyboard events when that happens lets me believe the problem might not only be in Evolution. I think the poor state of some applications and libraries after the upgrade to 11.04 really does not help. For example, whenever I try to right-click on the desktop (running Xfce), it does not register until about 5 seconds later, and even so it does not show anything but simply removes focus from anything that might have it, just like when displaying a popup menu, but nothing is drawn. Also, my desktop background image is gone, and I can't really group select icons with the mouse on the desktop. As far as I can tell, the bug in Evolution did not come with an update of Evolution, but with an update of other libraries, and it also brought bugs in more applications, such as the one described for the desktop. Hopefully, this was enough information to help track down this problem, let it be in Evolution or not. Please note that my Netbook running 10.10 is not subject to any of these bugs. All my packages on both machines are up to date as of today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724999 Title: evolution hangs desktop when previewing/opening some contacts -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
