I see this as well in evolution 2.4.2.1-1. For me, moving .evolution away made it work again once, but now it doesn't. I've downgraded to evolution 2.2.3-5 and that seems to work again. Here's some debugging output as recommended by http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ CAMEL_DEBUG=all CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 GROUPWISE_DEBUG=1 E2K_DEBUG=5 evolution adding hook target 'source' Thread b69ca8e0 > CamelStore('mbox:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/local'):get_folder('Inbox', 1) = 0x81470f0 < b69ca8e0 > Thread b69ca8e0 > CamelStore('mbox:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/local'):get_folder('Drafts', 1) = 0x81473c8 < b69ca8e0 > Thread b69ca8e0 > CamelStore('mbox:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/local'):get_folder('Outbox', 1) = 0x8147360 < b69ca8e0 > Thread b69ca8e0 > CamelStore('mbox:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/local'):get_folder('Sent', 1) = 0x81472f8 < b69ca8e0 > Thread b69ca8e0 > CamelStore('mbox:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/local'):get_folder('Inbox', 1) = 0x81470f0 < b69ca8e0 > (evolution:6819): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with NULL parameter. Thread b52efbb0 > Get folder info(0x81ea258:vfolder:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/vfolder, '<null>') = uri: vfolder:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/vfolder#UNMATCHED full_name: UNMATCHED flags: 0000006a < b52efbb0 > POP3_STREAM_LINE(95): '+OK vpopper at EarthLink (EngDev) v1.6 2000/09/29 Virtual POP3 ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' POP3_STREAM_WRITE(6): CAPA POP3_STREAM_LINE(18): '-ERR unimplemented' Thread b52efbb0 > Get folder info(0x81ea258:vfolder:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/vfolder, '<null>') = uri: vfolder:/home/moise/.evolution/mail/vfolder#UNMATCHED full_name: UNMATCHED flags: 0000006a < b52efbb0 > (evolution:6819): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed ... and then comes the freeze. It's worth noting that the gdk_gc_set_foreground assertion happens even when evolution is working correctly (and, indeed, even in version 2.2.3-5). ii evolution-dat 1.4.2.1-1 evolution database backend server ii gconf2 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-th 2.12.1-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gtkhtml3.8 3.8.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - b ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2- 2.10.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcamel1.2-6 1.4.2.1-1 The Evolution MIME message handlin ii libcomerr2 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 common error description library ii libcompfaceg1 1:1.5.2-2 Compress/decompress images for mai ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-23 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libebook1.2-5 1.4.2.1-1 Client library for evolution addre ii libecal1.2-3 1.4.2.1-1 Client library for evolution calen ii libedataserve 1.4.2.1-1 Utility library for evolution data ii libedataserve 1.4.2.1-1 GUI utility library for evolution ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libfontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgail-commo 1.8.8-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgail17 1.8.8-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyr 0.4.6-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome-pilo 2.0.12-1.6 Support libraries for gnome-pilot ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-4 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanva 2.12.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeprint 2.12.1-3 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprint 2.12.1-2 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.0-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2- 2.12.2-5 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-14 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.1-4 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkhtml3.8 3.8.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.4.3-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap2 2.1.30-12 OpenLDAP libraries ii libnspr4 2:1.7.12-1 Netscape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3 2:1.7.12-1 Network Security Service Libraries ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpisock8 0.11.8-17 Library for communicating with a P ii libpisync0 0.11.8-17 Synchronization library for PalmOS ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libsoup2.2-8 2.2.6-1 an HTTP library implementation in ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime Versions of packages evolution recommends: pn evolution-plugins <none> (no description available) ii gnome-desktop-data 2.12.2-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a pn gnome-pilot-conduits <none> (no description available) ii mozilla-psm 2:1.7.12-1 The Mozilla Internet application s ii spamassassin 3.1.0a-2 Perl-based spam filter using text -- Andrew Moise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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