[23318] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.13: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Mon Jul 28 13:52:27 2003
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From: "Jean Foster" <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
To: "Greg Hudson" <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:49:01 -0400
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Hi Greg,
It's so flakey, I don't know where to begin. If you are ever over in N42,
come down to my cube and I'll show you what happens.
Normally it can hang for two or three minutes at a time on such things as
"Generating message list (...)". Today it has just stopped responding and I
shut it down once and restarted and it has stopped responding again. By not
responding I mean it doesn't matter where I click within the app window, it
doesn't respond. I can grab the window and move it and can shut it down from
the upper right hand X box but can't get into the file menu to do it from
there. When I do move the window, it doesn't finish displaying correctly.
I don't see any errors on my console.
I just tried rebooting and it has had no effect. Evolution opens up but I
can never get it to respond. I see that my machine took an update to 9.2.14
on Friday night at 10 pm. The situation is worse now than it was last
Friday.
Hope this helps.
-jean-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Hudson" <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jean Foster" <jfoster@mit.edu>
Cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: sun4 9.2.13: evolution
> Hi, sorry for the long response time.
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:01, Jean Foster wrote:
> > Evolution hangs for seemingly endless periods of time and
> > I have no control of the cursor. It seems to happen mostly
> > when I am trying to enter text into a new email window.
> > Eventually it frees up again.
>
> I have a few questions which might help me track this down, or at least
> judge whether it's severe enough to delay putting Evolution 1.4 out to
> the Athena cell.
>
> * How often does this happen?
>
> * Do you have any better idea of the length of the seemingly endless
> period of time? (You doubtless would have said so if you did at the
> time of your bug report, but it's been a few working days, so maybe
> you've had a chance to time it.)
>
> * Similarly, do you have any better characterization of what triggers
> the pauses? Does anything happen in the main Evolution window when the
> pause starts, or just after it finishes?
>
> * When you say "no control of the cursor," do you mean that the mouse
> pointer doesn't move when you move the mouse, or that the text cursor in
> the Evolution message window can't be moved, or something else?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
