[plug] evolutions sucks - long live evolution

[Michael]

Doesn't seem the least unstable to me. Don't think I've ever had it
crash. Anyhow:

quadfour  6311  0.0  5.6 315496 87424 ?        Sl   Jun12
3:07 /usr/bin/evolution

Its not prior to Jun12 cause of a stupid power blackout. Generally
though, it will be running as long as the machine's uptime.

Cheers

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:37 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> I've tried a few email clients over the years, but have liked the
> feature set offered in evolution above all others.  Trouble is,
> evolution continues to suck as the _least_ stable app I've ever run in
> Linux :-(
> 
> For example, often when composing messages evo will freeze and no input
> is possible.  In earlier versions, the cure was to go to a terminal and
> execute 'killevo' or some such  (I forget the exact syntax).  Nowadays,
> it's 'evolution --force-shutdown' in a terminal.  The saving grace was
> that evo recognises that you've forced a shutdown and the 'lost' message
> is recovered - mostly.  Of course, you can also always pick off all the
> evo/bonobo component apps PID by PID, but that's tedious :-(
> 
> In case you were wondering whether this instability was specific to one
> distro, I can tell you that it has been consistent over many evo
> versions run over the years on RH8 then RH9 through FC2 to FC4.  It also
> didn't matter whether I built it from source or upgraded via yum.  And,
> now I see the same instability with Novell's customised evo version
> running under OpenSuSE 10.1.  Grrr.   
> 
> But, despite all that I stick with it.  Why?  I don't think any other
> client offers as many features.  Sigh.   But, tonight I saw the worst
> case of any linux app going crazy that I have ever seen.  That is, I was
> composing a message and evo froze - not once but twice in half an hour.
> Trouble was, the second time it also froze the whole damn machine!!
> That's right, it turned my linux PC into a windoze blue screen of death,
> only the screen was grey!  I know it was evo because when it froze I
> went to a different desktop and issued 'evolution --force-shutdown', but
> all it said was 'segmentation fault'.  After doing this three times it
> caused the lock up and I couldn't even open a virtual terminal.  Nada,
> nothing finito :-(.  So much for having an up time of 8 days on the box
> this time around.
> 
> You know the really perverse thing about all this? Even when I was
> composing this whinge/rant evo froze on me again!  And, that was after
> having to unplug this box to force a reboot.  All I can say is thank god
> for journaling file systems :-O   
> 
> Gavin.
> 
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