RE: [Evolution] Crash when composing email and arriving IMAP mail

["Zach Frey" <zfrey lanich com>]

Ettore,

> > Oddly enough, I don't consistantly find core files after the dreaded
> >  "component crashed" dialogs -- I'm not sure why.  
>
> It might be a system limit issue.  Try `ulimit' and run evolution-mail
> by hand.

  [zfrey gandalf zfrey]$ ulimit
  unlimited

This should not be preventing core files, right?

> > It would also be
> > *really* nice if when evolution-mail or the other components crashed,
> > the gnome-segv/bug-buddy sequence was run.  Maybe the Evolution hackers
> > could either (a) put that into the next preview release, or (b) clue
> > us in why it Can't Be Done (hint, hint).
>
> The reason why evolution-mail doesn't pop up the standard GNOME crash
> dialog is that the GNOME crash dialog miserably fails for a threaded
> program, so we had to disable it.

Ah.  I wondered ...

Is this a limitation of gnome-segv or of gdb?  Is this a Hard Problem(tm)
or one that Just Needs Work(tm)?


Thanks,

Zach