On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 17:01 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have somehow gotten my Gnome session confused. I don't know how it > happened so I can't write a coherent bug report about it. > I am running FC3 and my situation is that whenever I log in to my main > account, evolution-data-server dies. Sometimes it keeps on dying > repeatedly when I dismiss the error dialog. Sometimes the crashing is > triggered by accessing it via the date/time/calandar/todo-list popup or > just opening Evolution. > The weird thing is my Evolution client and clock/calandar toolbar popup > works ... sometimes. There is the odd time where Evolution would come up > and none of my email folders show up. After closing it down and > triggering the error by using the clock/calandar toolbar popup, usually > my folders show up when I start Evo again. Also, the clock stops working > sometimes. > > I think what is happening is that my gnome session is trying to start up > two separate instances of evo-data-server for both my clock popup and > evolution mail client and they are clobbering one another. I have no > idea where to find where e-d-s is spawned and respawned on crashing. I > have not seen and bug reports and googling around didn't reveal much for > me so I suspect that it is an isolated event due to some freak session > saving glitch. > > Could someone please give me some pointers as to where the session info > is saved for a particular user and what mechanism is responsible to > respawning e-d-s when it dies? > I suspect that this problem would persist through an uninstall/reinstall > of evo + e-d-s . > Moving to a whole new login and fresh environment would likely work but > I suspect there is an easier way to clear this up. > > Thanks, > /Mike > Mike, I cannot provide much info, other than me too. I see the data server crashing occasionally too. I've seen it happen more often when accessing the calendar. I am using connector and attributed to back-end problems connecting to our Exchange Server. I rarely see it at home connecting to my IMAP server. Bob...
