On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 14:54, Eric Blade wrote:
> I'm guessing that not too many of the kernel developers use Evolution as
> their email program :) Since I started picking up the 2.5.x series, at around
> 2.5.34, Evolution does not run anywhere near properly. I'm not sure if that
> is a kernel issue, or a problem with Evolution's code.. But it did improve
> quite a bit with all the low-level process management that was in the 2.5.3x
> series. It still doesn't work right though. (in 2.5.34, evolution would
> just plain halt the system ... in 2.5.42, it mostly works right, as long
> as you don't try to compose a message.. composing a message will leave you
> with a whole buch of zombie processes).
Hey, I use Evolution ;-)
See this thread:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2002-June/004841.html
It is indeed broken in 2.5 and it is not, for once, our fault. This
thread and other discussion seem to point out it is a bug in ORBit.
Robert Love
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