[Bug 30665] Re: [Bug 30665] Re: Evolution-Exchange crashes on Dapper
Hi Alexandre, It might well be hardware, but I have been running Breezy for so long with this machine, I'm unsure as to why this issue happened at the same time as changing to Dapper. I will try with a live CD and see what happens. I am not a programmer, so I can only guess as to what is happening, but one theme seems to be common, and that is that Evolution is the program that is most likely to crash. If I don't open evolution at all for a session, then the machine continues to run with no problems ? I am running DAPPER beta on a Sony Vaio Z1 (1.5 Centrino) with 512MB RAM. So unless my hardware has become faulty recently, the system specs should be high enough. The VAIO is fitted with an ATI M6 radeon, which is has no native support. Which reminds me, that there has been some artifacts on the screen in some applications (not all) namely J-Pilot. Perhaps it is a video related issue? I am only guessing. I will have a look on my desktop (which has just been upgraded to Dapper as well. I don't normally use Evolution on that machine, so haven't compared. Will get back to you ASAP. Cheers, Adam On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:05 +, Alexandre Otto Strube wrote: > Hello Adam, > > that's preety unusual. In fact, I've never seen this kind of behaviour in > evolution unless in certain messages, but no complete system lockup (this > makes me think of hardware error). > > Adam, there used to exist a bug about evolution locking up when you open some > message - it will lock even when you open it again with that message is > selected - and the lockup will go away if you remove that message using some > other mail client. But it was obsoleted - see > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315344 > > Is this bug present in more than one machine? When using standard dapper live > cd this issue arise? > -- Evolution-Exchange crashes on Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/30665 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 30665] Re: [Bug 30665] Re: Evolution-Exchange crashes on Dapper
Hi Seb, I have been thinking about what you said, and have been unable to find anything that I recognise as errors. BUT, I got thinking about whether there was a connection between some screen artifacts that I have (even now as I type) that might be related. Some of the mouse over buttons within evolution and J-pilot (haven't noticed the problem in any other applications) have spots on them. When I mouse over, they disappear. My computer has a weird graphics card (16MB ATI Radeon M6 LY) which supports 3D in Windows, but I can't get working in Linux. I was looking at the logs from x11 and found that it claimed the screen resolution of 1400 x 1050 (native for this laptop) and colour depth of 24 bit, could not be supported (insufficient memory) so I dropped the colour depth back to 16bit from 24. I have now been unable to lock up the system. I have been opening and closing evolution, browsers, various apps and all seems OK. However, the artifacts have not disappeared. As I am not a developer, I can only assume that there has been some critical change in the ATI driver between Breezy and Dapper which has resulted in this problem. I am hoping that something can be done with the ATI driver which can address this, but I'm not holding my breath. Thanks for helping me work through this. Keep up the great work. Cheers, Adam On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 08:37 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > if the box freezes that's not an evolution issue, and application can be > buggy but that should not impact on the box, that's probably a linux > issue. Do you have something to /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog > about a crash or something like that? > -- Evolution-Exchange crashes on Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/30665 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 30665] Re: [Bug 30665] Re: Evolution-Exchange crashes on Dapper
Hi Seb, I totally agree. I'm new to this beta testing thing, and have heaps to learn. As mentioned previously, I have had no system freezes since dropping the colour depth. I will read up on how to do a backtrace and will then open a bug in xorg. Thanks for your time and patience. Regards, Adam On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:15 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Adam, you should open a bug on xserver-xorg-driver-ati about that, that issue > has nothing to do with that bug and evolution-exchange actually > > lemonade, could you get a backtrace? > -- Evolution-Exchange crashes on Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/30665 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
