Evolution crashes when closing a draft message window. This happens when sending a draft, or when simply closing a window. This is on PPC-stable, except that gnome-spell is from unstable because the version in stable (1.0.5-r1) doesn't build. (pan is also from unstable because I'm testing it, but I doubt that's relevant.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch evolution. 2. Open a draft window. 3. Click on the close box on the draft window. Actual Results: Evolution crashed, giving me the bug buddy dialog. Expected Results: Closed the draft window without crashing. Gnome, including nautilus, was the only other thing running.
Oops. Forgot my emerge info. Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-ppc-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.24-ppc-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.24-ppc-r2 ppc 7455, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=7400 -maltivec -mabi=altivec" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa berkdb bonobo canna cjk cups dvd esd foomaticdb freewnn gdbm gif gnome gnome-libs gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde libwww mitshm motif mozilla nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppc python qt readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype unicode xml2 xmms xv"
I've just discovered, by chance, that Evolution doesn't crash if there's another draft window open. At least not the first time you send another draft.
do you have a backtrace of the crash? or some sort of core dump or console output?
No. I'm running stable, so I don't have any debugging set up.
well, we can't do anything unless you provide more information, otherwise i'll just be forced to close this. try searching bugs.gentoo.org and bugzilla.ximian.com for similar problems
Close as you wish. I've been forced to abandon Gentoo on PPC given that Evolution, Epiphany, GDM, Gedit, and the postscript viewer (from stable) all crash consistently under normal usage. My guess is that your PPC community just isn't big enough to provide the necessary quality control yet; not enough people using it on enough different systems.
funny because i have no problems on my 12" powerbook.
I have no problems with the mentioned tools, too. But I'm on an iBook600...
I'm sorry for the situation with the current stable ppc, it could get better once the new toolchain stabilizes enough.
Like I said, not a large enough community. We probably have slightly different compiler settings, or a slightly different set of loaded applications. With so many things that can differ between Gentoo installations, you need a large community to catch the problems. It's a shame, because portage seems to work really well, and I'll probably take another look in a few months. If I pick up an i386 box at any point, I'll definitely check out the Intel side. Good luck!
Somehow this becomes a discussion now... But how should ppc enlarge the community, when nobody wants to run it? I know that there are a lot of packages, which will compile on ppc, but nobody of the devs had use for them or could test them very deeply. Therefore we have this bugzilla or the gentoo-ppc-mailinglists, where users can tell developers, which packages are supposed to be stable. As ppc has a not as many developers as other architectures, we really need those information. So everybody can join the advantages of free software and give back a little piece (as it is written in many licenses). Everytime when I hear something like "No, I don't want to help in development at all, I just want to use that piece of software", I feel sad and wish that the sense of Free Software will reach that person someday.
I have limited resources and time, and building six applications, from what is supposed to be a stable distribution, in debug mode, then running stack traces through gdb, is more than I have time for, particularly when the crashes make it impossible to use my system for some of its purposes. I've filed bug reports saying what crashed, and under what conditions. I really don't think you can ask for more from users of the stable distribution. As for giving back to the community, well... I wrote the documentation for AbiWord. Does that count?
