ximian evolution freezes while typing etc.

[Brian Millett]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 19:32 +0100, Alexander H.M. Ruoff wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> got a problem with evolution every 5 minutes. I type my reply and from time to 
> time nothing happens. The cursor within the editor is frozen but I can still use 
> my mouse to switch to other desktops applications or windows. I can even continue 
> typing without seeing anything changing and after 10 seconds or so, the text 
> within the email just appeared including the stuff I have written "blind".
> 
> I run Fedora C1 with the KDE environment on a Toshiba Satellite with a PIII 600 
> and 192 MB RAM. 
> 
> Thing is, it's just annoying since nothing really happens, just I don't see for a 
> couple of seconds what I write. However, whatever I do or type while evolution is 
> frozen, it happens after that short freeze.

There was a note about this problem on the evolution mailing list a bit
ago.  The gist of the answer is to make sure that the host you are doing
this on has an entry in the /etc/hosts file.

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