Steps to reproduce:
For some reason, Evolution has been hunging on me often "all of a sudden".

Was it because I played with some media application and had some setting set wrongly?!

Anyway, if it happens, it just kept happening.

Sorry for no better repro. Hope the strace trace is helpful to identify the problem.



Stack trace:
STRACE OUTPUT:
uname({sys="Linux", node="somehost.com", ...}) = 0
access("/tmp/.esd/socket", R_OK|W_OK)   = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 39
fcntl64(39, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
setsockopt(39, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
connect(39, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.esd/socket"}, 18) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x48f7ab10, [PIPE], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) =
0
open("/home/auser/.esd_auth", O_RDONLY) = 48
read(48, " \276\230\351?\16)KG\"\23o\10\307\320%", 16) = 16
write(39, " \276\230\351?\16)KG\"\23o\10\307\320%", 16) = 16
write(39, "NDNE", 4)                    = 4
read(39,

Other information:
Daniel Yek <danieyek@alumni.washington.edu>:

Evolution sometimes hangs and if it hangs, it will continue to hangs
until I reboot my FC5 computer. 

From the stack shown in gdb, I suspected that Evolution was outputting
alarm audio when it hung.

From strace output, I saw that Evolution read ./.esd_auth and then wrote
to /tmp/.esd/socket. It hung after it reads something back from the esd
socket.

Is this a known bug? Does it have anything to do with whether my sound
device is occupied by another multi-media application?


DETAILS:
$ rpm -q evolution
evolution-2.6.1-1.fc5.2

-- 
Daniel Yek



Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@novell.com>:

you should probably submit this to bugzilla.gnome.org, under the
libgnome module. (evolution just calls gnome_sound_play(), it doesn't do
any communication with esd itself).

I would imagine other gnome apps have the same problem.

Jeff