I noticed this behavior with Evolution 2.6.2, I currently have 2.8.3 installed, and it is still happening. I have crash dumps from 2.6.2 through 2.8.3. I cannot leave Evolution running continuously because some of its processes fail if running too long. Therefore I need to shutdown at the end of the day, this includes doing a --force-shutdown and then killing any processes that are left. I start up evolution the next day, usually without any noticeable problems. Most of the time when I try to send my first email of the day, it will hang for a bit, then a bug window pops up asking me to save the file; I have 11 crash/dump files for someone to look at. This is my work system; I am very fortunate that my employer allows me to run Gentoo Linux at work. I need the Evolution because is it has what I need to do my job effectively. That said, a large part of my job is sending and receiving email; this gets a little tough at times when my email programs keep crashing. If we can get this stabilized, we might get a few more converts. :) Software installed: mail-client/evolution Latest version available: 2.8.2.1 Latest version installed: 2.8.3-r1 gnome-extra/evolution-webcal Latest version available: 2.8.0 Latest version installed: 2.8.0 gnome-extra/evolution-exchange Latest version available: 2.8.1 Latest version installed: 2.8.3 gnome-extra/evolution-data-server Latest version available: 1.8.2 Latest version installed: 1.8.3-r1 # uname -a Linux hbloom03d 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Mon Dec 18 13:17:42 CST 2006 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I will try to attach the crash dumps to this bug report. Thanks, Harlan...
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# emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.8 Last Sync: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:47:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol amd64 apache2 arts automount avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo calendar cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd evo fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv innodb input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text ldap libg++ mad maildir mcal midi mikmod mime mozbranding mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugins ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection reiserfs samba sasl sdl session simplexml spell spl ssl swat tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vhosts video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo vorbis windbind wmf xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Thank you for report, Harlan. But could you, please, recompile evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-exchange and evolution-ical with debugging symbols as described in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml gather backtrace after that and reopen bug? At the moment backtraces you attached are hardly usable.
