evolution freezing on hoary (& warty, prior to upgrade)

[James Wilkinson]

Scott Zimmer wrote:
> I've been running Hoary for a few weeks on my home desktop system, and for a 
> few months I've had Ubuntu (first Warty, then upgraded to Hoary) on my 
> laptop. I've noticed that in both scenarios Evolution tends to freeze up a 
> lot, and when I exit I often see a brief message indicating that 
> alarm-notify is not responding.
> 
> I understand this isn't enough info for people to troubleshoot, but any 
> advice would be appreciated (sharing similar problems, telling me tests to 
> run or what config files to post to the list, etc.).

The first thing to do is to open up a terminal, and run evolution from
that.

This gives Evolution somewhere to spew error messages, which you can
then Google or ask about.

Hope this helps,

James.

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