How ironic....

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:36 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> 
> > where is Evolution !?? :-O The thing suddenly disappeared from my
> > screen, crashed, no warning, no nothing !
> >
> > In 20 months of using Ubuntu/Evolution, it has never crashed/disappeared
> > in this brutal way,
> 
> Not to trivialize the problem you had, but I would not describe that
> as "brutal"...
> 
> If Evolution caused a BSOD followed by a full system crash, that would
> be "brutal" O:)  Evolution apparently failed silently so as to not
> otherwise inconvenience you ;)
> 

I would agree that this is brutal by Linux standards since userspace
apps cannot take down the whole system like on Windows.  The default
mail client for the Dapper desktop cannot EVER crash, especially not
right away under trivial usage like that.  It points to a lack of a QA
process.

> > and now that Dapper, supposedly super stable and
> > polished, has just been released, hence too late to do anything, it
> > crashes like alpha software :-/
> 
> Well no, its not too late :)
> 
> If they can identify the bug that caused this, a patch will be issued
> and will come via the normal update mechanism.
> 

Try running it under GDB and reproduce the crash and get a backtrace.
In my experience even obvious Evo bugs do not fix themselves, you have
to pester the developers.

> Also, if you use backports, you can get a new version from there when
> it becomes available.
> 
> CK
>