[ale] Evolution/mouse crash

[Jim Kinney]

That sounds more like an input systems failure that took down evolution.
Funky chipset sends spurious signal through dbus that isn't trapped and
discarded properly.

On Aug 28, 2010 9:52 AM, "Richard Faulkner" <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> 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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