Exchange Connector / Evolution 2.6.2 Problem in FC5

[Andreas Wahlert]

Ed Hill schrieb:
> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:45 +0200, Andreas Wahlert wrote:
>> There is only one Problem. Evolution 2.6 crashes randomly. I have
>> googled for this but i have no solution found.
>> There is a dirty hack with gtk2 libs. But this don't works for me. i
>> can't find the described gtk2 (2.9.1) version
> 
> 
> I see this as well and have seen it for more than a year.  And the
> really annoying aspect is the non-repeatability.  So far, I've been
> unable to construct an example (say, a particular email being composed)
> that causes the crashes to happen repeatably.
> 
> For me, the following things seem to increase the likelihood of crashes:
> 
>  - running evolution for a long time -- and even when
>      it doesn't crash this usually causes evolution to 
>      take a long time (2--4+ minutes at 100% CPU usage) 
>      to shut down cleanly
> 
>  - composing emails that have a lot of parens () and
>      quotation "" characters, particularly quotations 
>      that are nested within parens and involve editing
>      (moving the cursor around within the parens and 
>      quotes and adding/deleting text)
> 
> If there is some way to provide more precise debugging help, I'll be
> happy to try and contribute...
> 
> Ed
> 
> ps - I use evolution for all my mail (hundreds to thousands per 
>      day) and have encountered these crashes about 1+ times 
>      per month.  So its not frequent but it does seem to happen 
>      every few weeks.  And I can decrease the frequency of 
>      the crashes by completely stopping and restarting evolution 
>      more frequently (say, every few days).
> 
no i think you have another kind of failure.

My crashes are appears with our Exchange 2003 server.

When i'm browsing public folders for example.