Evolution hangs overnight

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:07 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:41 -0700, RS wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am seeing a weird Evolution bug when i leave my PC on overnight. I've
> > seen this for 3 days now. I switch off the monitor and when i return the
> > next morning, I see Evolution not able to display the GUI properly
> > (grayed out)..I have to force kill it and restart
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to debug it during the hang?
> > 
> > FC11 x86_64 GNOME, .29.167.fc11 kernel, Evolution 2.26.2
> 
> Actually, I started seeing the same thing with Evo starting with the
> most recent update on it for F11. Evo will hang every few seconds for
> between 5 and 10 seconds while creating a message.
> 
> There is definitely something amiss that appears to have happened in the
> last few days. I was about to post something about it myself.
> 
> Evo paused 3 times in the time it took for me to write this reply, and
> I'm not a slow typist...

It's done this to me off and on over the past several years, but I never
managed to figure out what it was before it suddenly went away again,
i.e. I don't think it's a specifically F11 problem.

poc