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Subject: Re: Evolution and 2.5.x
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Eric Blade <eblade@m-net.arbornet.org>
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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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