Evolution Crashes

[David Malcolm]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:00 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:46 -0500, Gustavo A. Lozano wrote:
> > > My evolution is generating a lot of crashes (currently I am up 2 date to
> > > everything in the yum development tree)... Before posting the bugzilla,
> > > I want to know about other experiences out there...
> 
> I see a lot of evolution crashes as well as a pernicious "denial of
> workstation" ;-) I'll explain in a moment.
> 
> It is not unusual for the evolution GUI to spontaneously abort, when it
> does it leaves the other evolution processes running. This happens once
> or twice a day and appears to be completely random. Interestingly, if it
> aborts while I'm composing mail not a single key stroke is lost when the
> draft is recovered so I'm assuming it has some graceful opportunity to
> save its state on the way down and is not an absolutely hard crash.

Please can you try to get a backtrace into Bugzilla.  I suspect a crash
in gtkhtml3, so having the debuginfo for that package (as well as
Evolution) would be useful.

You should be getting backtraces via bug-buddy.  If not, and if it's
happening that often, please can you start evolution under gdb and try
to get a backtrace.

> 
> The other problem I was seeing on a regular basis was all the resources
> of the machine being consumed such that I could not get to an alternate
> console, run ps or top, the machine was dragged to its knees. I'm pretty
> sure evolution in concert with spamd (filter incoming mail checkbox) was
> the culprit, but given how hard it was to do anything when the problem
> occurred I only have anecdotal evidence. I was often forced to resort to
> using the reset button. I suspect it was some type of fork bombing with
> spamd where it got caught in tight loop launching processes that would
> immediately die, but that's only speculation. I have not seen this
> problem since turning off the filter option on incoming mail.
> 
> I've talked to David Malcom about this and he encouraged me to file a
> bugzilla, but it so hard to collect any information or see a pattern
> that I wasn't sure I saw the value in a bug report that simply asserted
> "evolution is doing something bad" ;-)

I went ahead and filed this here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158807