GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 575229
Preview pane hangs with 'Formatting Message...'
Last modified: 2009-03-13 13:10:23 UTC
Please describe the problem: Every now and then (on the order of every couple of hours, i.e. several times a day) the preview pane starts hanging with 'Formatting Message...' when selecting a new message. After about 30 seconds, the message preview appears. The only way to recover is to restart Evolution. When this happens, a secondary symptom is that when deleting a message, its preview remains visible, as well as its striked through entry in the folder view, until manually selecting another message, which triggers the primary symptom again. I will attach a gdb backtrace from when the preview pane is hanging. Steps to reproduce: Just reading and deleting mail for a while. Haven't been able to determine any specific trigger. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: This didn't happen until and including Evolution 2.22.x. It happens on my main machine but not on another one with a very similar setup, I haven't been able to determine what makes the difference. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466749 might be related. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/175233 could be about the same problem, at least the later comments. Bug 563563 sounds similar, but attaching to evolution-data-server during a hang doesn't show similar backtraces, and killing it doesn't recover from the problem.
Created attachment 130576 [details] Backtrace during hang Let me know if I should get another one with more debugging packages installed, but I think the interesting thread with __pthread_cond_timedwait on top should have all the interesting symbols.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 568332 ***