On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:32, Scott Otterson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:23, Not Zed wrote: > > I've dont plenty of testing with disconnecting, and it works fine. It > > takes a while and eventually times out. If i reconnect the network, it > > just keeps going again. > > NoZed, we must be doing something different. Here's the first thing I > tried: > > - connect modem (click modemlights applet) > - start evolution > - wait for the INBOX to show up > - disconnect modem (click the modemlights applet) > - in evolution, click the connect button (evolution lower left button) > - click cancel in the evolution popup window > - connect modem (click the modemlights applet) > > At this point, evolution hangs, meaning that at the bottom, it displays > "Scanning folders in "IMAP..." and messages do not show up in the > preview window when I click on them. I left it undisturbed for 10
strace -f evolution Look for SIGPIPE, lots of libs evolution links to turn it off. Evolution never sets a proper signal handler for it. So you have to wait for ~20min up to 2H depending on the last network segment. Ronald > minutes and it remained frozen in that state. I don't know, maybe it's > a thread contention but the bottom line is that I can't read email until > evolution is killev'ed and restarted. As far as I know, this is > reasonably close to what happens when my modem connection goes down on > its own. There are a lot of other ways I can get to this state. > > Could you try this experiment? Jeff Stedfast ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) says > that UW IMAP is bad juju. If you don't get the same hang that I do, do > you think it's because of the type of IMAP server UW has? > > Scott > > > > Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing, what's the number > > > for the open bug on PPP disconnects causing an IMAP hang? > > > > ?? > > > > IMAP and POP are separate. > > > > There might be some threading contention where a thread is 'busy' > > waiting for a timeout, but it isn't hanging. > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:22, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > they are 1) unrelated and 2) already reported. > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:16, Scott Otterson wrote: > > > > > Why not? It's clear that there's a bug in evolution and that it's not a > > > > > fundamental flaw with Linux. > > > > > > > > > > Now, if the stop button bug and the PPP-disconnect-hang bug are > > > > > manifestations of the same problem, then I agree that it doesn't make > > > > > sense to file a new one -- that is, if there is a non-closed stop button > > > > > bug and if it is known that these are really the same problem. > > > > > > > > > > Are both these things true? > > > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:33, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > > > please do not submit new bug reports, thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 16:15, Scott Otterson wrote: > > > > > > > Yes, Ettore, you're right about the stop button not working -- and > > > > > > > there's at least one bug on it but it was closed as fixed even though it > > > > > > > wasn't. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is the stop button problem also causing the PPP-disconnect-induced > > > > > > > hangs? Or should I file a separate bug? Anyway, you're right that this > > > > > > > isn't a problem with Linux: Mozilla on Linux handles PPP disconnects > > > > > > > just fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 11:38, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:12, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On reading your response, my first thought was, "Boy, linux must be > > > > > > > > > > lame," because on Windows, nothing hangs when you lose your PPP -- >not > > > > > > > > > > outlook, not mozilla, not anything as far as I know. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > wonderful about those win32 apis for finding out when the connection > > > > > > > > > goes down. Not available on linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Having the Stop button working properly in all cases in the mailer >would > > > > > > > > be a good starting point though. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is true that we have a bug there, and it can be fixed, and there is > > > > > > > > no reason to blame Linux for it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Jeffrey Stedfast > > > > > > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > -- > > > > Jeffrey Stedfast > > > > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
