Kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 Evolution lockups

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Fri May 27 18:05:16 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 16:03 +0100, Andrew Gray wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Since installing Kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3. Yum log:-
> 
> May 25 18:43:11 Updated: netpbm.i386 10.27-3.FC3
> May 25 18:43:18 Updated: info.i386 4.8-2.1
> May 25 18:44:12 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.11-1.27_FC3
> May 25 18:44:14 Updated: texinfo.i386 4.8-2.1
> May 25 18:44:15 Updated: netpbm-devel.i386 10.27-3.FC3
> May 25 18:44:18 Updated: netpbm-progs.i386 10.27-3.FC3
> May 25 18:44:19 Updated: sudo.i386 1.6.7p5-30.2
> May 26 17:12:15 Updated: ImageMagick.i386 6.2.2.0-2.fc3
> 
> 
> Evolution 2.04 has locked up three times composing a reply to an email.
> It's memory usage sky rockets and goes massively virtual. Only solution
> is to eventually open the root shell (extremely slow) and type:-
> 
> # evolution --force-shutdown 
> 
> When Evolution is reopen it generally recovers the composed email and
> continues till editing another email. 
> 
> Had problems with Kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and reverted to
> 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 which I had been using for 23 days solid with evolution
> open without a hitch. Install and boot 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 and Evolution
> starts crashing and eating memory. 

Does Evolution work OK if you boot with the old kernel?

> 
> Anyone else seeing problems with 2.6.11-1.27_FC3
> 
> ASUS A7V8X Athlon XP 2200+ 512MB 
> 
> -Andrew Gray
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