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Bug 710489 - Network detection broken at startup
Network detection broken at startup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.10.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 710814 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-10-19 01:46 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2013-10-30 19:42 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2013-10-19 01:46:41 UTC 
Seems like Evolution 3.10.0 breaks network handling. Just disable wifi/ethernet/etc (with a killswitch or the gnome control center).

Start Evolution (or even just leave it already running), and you will notice that
- the icons in the statusbar indicate the connection as being online
- it tries to create connections for my IMAP+ accounts
- an infobar is shown to say "Error while Fetching mail from 'FooBar'":
  "Could not connect to 'the_server': Host lookup failed [...]"

Unfortunately not the first time I see this regression happening :(
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2013-10-19 04:38:41 UTC 
Note that Network Manager support was removed last year.  Evolution only listens to GNetworkMonitor now, so this may actually be a GLib bug.
Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2013-10-24 17:05:25 UTC 
*** Bug 710814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ulrich Keller 2013-10-30 08:05:31 UTC 
Just to clarify: Evolution does detect when the network is disconnected while it is running. It just does not seem to check for the connection when it's started.
Comment 4 Matthew Barnes 2013-10-30 14:29:25 UTC 
Okay thanks, I think I see that too.  Clarifying summary.
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2013-10-30 14:34:31 UTC 
Also (at least for me) just seems to be mail accounts broken.  Calendars and address books correctly detect they're offline, indicated by the connection icons in the sidebar.