[ale] Evolution/mouse crash

[Richard Faulkner]

In an earlier posting I sought suggestions for a replacement for
Evolution 2.28.3 but have yet to explore those and make any changes.
With that said I'm still running into periodic crashes of Evolution with
the last one moments ago.  The symptoms have me curious and I wanted to
see if anyone had some input as to what happened...

I am running Fedora 12 (2.6.32.19-163.fc12.i686) on Asus A8N w/AMD X2
(Manchester)/2GB and XFX 6800GS GPU's.

I was doing a reply-all and editing the "Cc:" addresses when the crash
happened.  Evolution goes "dark" and I loose all mouse input.  I
couldn't click on a single thing and get a response anywhere on the
desktop.  Noting that Eyes 2.28.0 was still running I knew the system
was still running but I had lost the mouse as well as Evolution.
Keyboard input was still good so I did a force quit to Evolution and all
was well.

My question to those who are most learned in such things...why did a
crash in Evolution trash all mouse input to the system outside of
Evolution?  Could this have been a failure in the mouse input or a
combined failure in Evolution and mouse?  Inquiring minds want to
know...

Rich in Lilburn
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