[20801] in Athena Bugs
solaris 9.1.16: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Sep 25 12:34:23 2002
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:34:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200209251634.MAA14879@multics.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: furness@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
User 'furness' came into the SIPB office reporting that Evolution
had hung his workstation. It appeared to have grabbed the focus
while crashing.
We were able to reproduce crashing evolution (the dialog box mentioned
a bus error, but it wasn't clear to me which of the 19 bazillion
processes of God^H^H^HEvolution were responsible), by openning a
particular message. We saved the message (using mutt) to
/mit/furness/Public/evolution-crash. It has a relatively complex
structure:
I 1 <no description> [multipa/related, 7bit, 199K]
I 2 tq><no description> [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 4.8K]
I 3 x tq><no description> [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 1.9K]
I 4 x mq><no description> [text/html, 7bit, us-ascii, 2.7K]
I 5 mq>untitled.bmp [applica/octet-stre, base64, 193K]
I 6 <no description> [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.3K]
Evolution grabbed the focus and hung the workstation 2 out of 3 times,
but one time it merely crashed without hanging the workstation. It seems
like it would be good to improve this.
The one time it crashed without hanging, clicking on the option in
the dialogue box to see details of the crash brings one to a web page
suggesting one should open a bugzilla account and file a bugzilla
bug report; is this really what Athena should be recommending?
--jhawk
