GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 583012
Evolution hangs when closing the application
Last modified: 2009-05-20 04:00:37 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Evolution 2. Use Evolution 3. Close Evolution -- et voila, the application hangs Stack trace: Other information: This has been pasted to the Mandriva Bugzilla before: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50865 As described there, the application is closing and most of the GUI is beginning to fade-out (it's getting grey/in-active). However, 2 parts of the GUI are not greyed-out: 1) the email list window 2) and the email preview window I cannot do (with mouse/keyboard) anything in these still active parts of the GUI, however. But the application is somewhat alive because I once received a new email when the application obviously hung, and this email appeared on the top of the email list and there came a notification in the panel applet. (If desired, I can provide a screenshot of what I described above. This one is already attached to the Mandriva Bugzilla as well!) I have to "Xkill" the GUI everytime I use Evolution.
Created attachment 134848 [details] screenshot of evolution when it hangs the attachement shows the "active" parts of the GUI marked red, while the remainder is already greyed-out after closing the application.
Please start evolution in terminal under gdb, when it hangs do ctrl+c and then 't a a bt' and paste the traces here. see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/Details#gdb-not-yet-running for details about how to do this
Weird... I debugged it once, and Evolution exited normally. No hang. Now, I started it twice without the debugger and it also finished normally. The strange thing is that something similar happened some days ago when I tried to gather additional information for the Mandriva developers. At this time, the bug disappeared spontaneously, but it came back after the next boot. I will come back to you after some more testing in the next days...
(gdb) cont Continuing. ^C Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0xffffe424 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) t a a bt
+ Trace 215606
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 579360 ***