On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 18:11 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:00 -0400, John Dennis wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:46 -0500, Gustavo A. Lozano wrote: > > > > My evolution is generating a lot of crashes (currently I am up 2 date to > > > > everything in the yum development tree)... Before posting the bugzilla, > > > > I want to know about other experiences out there... > > > > I see a lot of evolution crashes as well as a pernicious "denial of > > workstation" ;-) I'll explain in a moment. > > > > It is not unusual for the evolution GUI to spontaneously abort, when it > > does it leaves the other evolution processes running. This happens once > > or twice a day and appears to be completely random. Interestingly, if it > > aborts while I'm composing mail not a single key stroke is lost when the > > draft is recovered so I'm assuming it has some graceful opportunity to > > save its state on the way down and is not an absolutely hard crash. > > Please can you try to get a backtrace into Bugzilla. I suspect a crash > in gtkhtml3, so having the debuginfo for that package (as well as > Evolution) would be useful. FWIW: On FC3, I am pretty sure gtkhtml3 is at least one cause of evo crashes, because many of the evo crashes I experience happen during cut'n'paste operations from terminals into composer windows (Typical case: Cut'n'paste a log from gcc's output into composer). Ralf