On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:45 +0200, Andreas Wahlert wrote:
>
> There is only one Problem. Evolution 2.6 crashes randomly. I have
> googled for this but i have no solution found.
> There is a dirty hack with gtk2 libs. But this don't works for me. i
> can't find the described gtk2 (2.9.1) version
I see this as well and have seen it for more than a year. And the
really annoying aspect is the non-repeatability. So far, I've been
unable to construct an example (say, a particular email being composed)
that causes the crashes to happen repeatably.
For me, the following things seem to increase the likelihood of crashes:
- running evolution for a long time -- and even when
it doesn't crash this usually causes evolution to
take a long time (2--4+ minutes at 100% CPU usage)
to shut down cleanly
- composing emails that have a lot of parens () and
quotation "" characters, particularly quotations
that are nested within parens and involve editing
(moving the cursor around within the parens and
quotes and adding/deleting text)
If there is some way to provide more precise debugging help, I'll be
happy to try and contribute...
Ed
ps - I use evolution for all my mail (hundreds to thousands per
day) and have encountered these crashes about 1+ times
per month. So its not frequent but it does seem to happen
every few weeks. And I can decrease the frequency of
the crashes by completely stopping and restarting evolution
more frequently (say, every few days).
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