GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 528601
Opening the calendar/clock lock the panel 8 seconds
Last modified: 2008-04-25 03:26:04 UTC
1. I added two locations (Concepción Chile, Auckland New Zealand). 2. See a nice location graph. 3. Close the calendar clicking over the time in the panel. 4. Use the desktop 5. Try to open the calendar. ... ... 8 seconds later it show the calendar and the locations. The panel is lock, it is not possible to do anything in the panel. It also delay the startup. I haven't taken the time, but is not fast anymore. I tried disabling locations, but in the same session still the problem persists.
Created attachment 109434 [details] strace of gnome-panel This is the ouput of: $ strace -fF -tt -o gnome-panel-strace-6001.txt -p 6001 where 6001 is the pid of gnome-panel. I deleted the parts not relevants (a lot of gettimeofday before and after the problem).
After: - Remove the clock from the panel - Log out - killall -u gpoo and logged in again, it feels better. (The IT crowd guys could say: "Have you tried turning off and on again?" :-) On the other hand, looking the output of strace, there is are libecal warnings. In .xsession-error I had (new session, sorry): libecal-WARNING **: e-cal.c:318: Unexpected response Googling a bit I found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/183846 It seems there is a problem with libecal and Google Calendar. I deleted my two Google Calendars in Evolution, added a clock, added the same two locations, and the calendar is opened faster than before. It doesn't open automatically, it takes 1 second at the best. I deleted all my calendars (except Personal and Birthday), and even without any date in my agenda, it doesn't improve anything else.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 515948 ***