Ed Hill schrieb: > 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). > no i think you have another kind of failure. My crashes are appears with our Exchange 2003 server. When i'm browsing public folders for example.
