[26011] in Athena Bugs
major failure in Evolution Calendar on Athena 9.3.11/Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Chudnovsky)
Mon Aug 30 11:58:42 2004
From: Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnovsky@alum.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:58:34 -0400
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I am running Athena 9.3.11 under Linux and am having major problems with
Evolution, all of a sudden:
This morning, I tried opening my calendar again on evolution, and a
window that said "Calendar" in the title frame came up. The contents,
however, were those of the "Tasks" window. I closed it and tried again,
same results.
I quit evolution. For good measure, I then "punt"ed evolution.
I started evolution again. Not only did the first window come up (I have
it set to my Inbox), but so did a zillion "Alarm" windows. To all
appearances, every alarm I had ever set in my Calendar decided to pop up
all at once. My system was hosed and very sluggish. I managed, finally
(this took several minutes), to shift to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
and "punt"ed evolution. Back in the XServer, I saw evolution finally
disappear. But then my system was completely unresponsive. Only the
mouse cursor moved, but clicks and key presses had no effect. The
XServer was updating the display, since I could see the system monitor
applet scrolling. When the monitor had settled and I could not hear the
hard disk spinning anymore and the system remained totally unresponsive,
I had to do a hard reset.
After the reset, when I try to open the calendar, I still get the
"Tasks" contents.
There is one tab I can pull to resize the panes in this view, and I can
see the little thumbnail month calendars at the top of the window, with
the dates where I have an appointment in bold. However, I still can't
see my actual planner with the names or details of the appointments. I
can also add a new appointment, but again, it just isn't displayed
beyond being bolded in the thumbnail calendars.
In the past, I've had Evolution crash every so often, and somehwat
rarely it hung on me and I had to punt it. I've not had major problems
like this since I upgraded to 9.3 (before, I had problems with the
Contacts features-- now it works adequately though some of the records
it displays are stale).
Thanks,
Victor
