f9 X crash when clicking evolution "recover"

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 05:44:06 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 14:30 -0700, David L wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, David L <idht4n at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I just had a new record of 3 bugs biting me within 30 seconds.
>         evolution crashed as I was typing an address into the CC
>         field.
>         I restarted evolution and it asked if I wanted to recover a
>         lost
>         message.  When I clicked recover, X windows crashed and 
>         dropped me to the console.  The console was sluggish because 
>         a process named console-kit was sucking 99.9% of the CPU.
> 
> Same exact thing happened to me again.  Evolution crashes.
> Restarting evolution causes a window with "recover" & "ignore" 
> options.  Clicking on "ignore" crashed X, which didn't restart...
> it dropped to a console login.

The Recover/Ignore dialog was introduced because certain pathological
messages could cause problems with Evo, including crashing and soaking
up all your cpu (remember that Evo includes an engine for showing HTML
message inline). "Recover" means "start with the preview panel closed so
I don't try to display the current message". "Ignore" means "forget
about safety, just restore the preview panel to its last known state".

Crashing with the Recover button is of course a bug.

poc




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