Re: Using Linux 3.2.23, GNOME 3.4 fallback, `evolution --component=mail mailto:info@example.net` hangs

On Son, 2012-10-07 at 14:50 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

using Debian Sid/unstable, clicking on a mail address in Iceweasel (Firefox) a composer window is opened in Evolution 3.4.3-1. But then the windows are only gray and hang and the only way to fix this is to kill the process. I reported this issue to the GNOME Bugzilla as 685640 and the developer Matthew Barnes pointed out the following [1].

    --- Comment #1 from Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> 2012-10-07 11:59:35 UTC ---
    Radeon video driver thread looks stuck:

    Thread 5 (Thread 0x7f6656d4d700 (LWP 4375)):
    #0  pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
        at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:162
    No locals.
    #1  0x00007f6656f4c9f3 in pipe_semaphore_wait (sema=0x7f666b6577b8)
        at ../../../../../src/gallium/auxiliary/os/os_thread.h:432
    No locals.
    #2  radeon_drm_cs_emit_ioctl (param=0x7f666b635c40) at radeon_drm_cs.c:401
            cs = 0x7f666b635c40

I followed up on the bug report with an explanation why that isn't necessarily a problem.