[26012] in Athena Bugs
Re: major failure in Evolution Calendar on Athena 9.3.11/Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Chudnovsky)
Mon Aug 30 12:07:20 2004
From: Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnovsky@alum.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:02:43 -0400
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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As a fallow up: I just found the practically-invisible vertical tab I
can pull to resize the panes and I can access my calendar now. That big
problem is fixed (but why, oh, why does Evolution resize the panes like
that when it crashes? It's caused me trouble before.)
So it looks like the only real question left pending is what the heck
happened when all those alarms popped up on my screen at the same time
and hosed my XServer. I don't know how to reproduce that, and for
obvious reasons, I'd rather not.
Victor
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 11:58, Victor Chudnovsky wrote:
> 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
