Re: Evolution "sticking" on text entry

Sorry to get back *that* late...


> I am having trouble when entering text in an email.  It has stopped once
> already in the first line (after "text" ) it has stopped again after the
> parenthesis.  This is really irritating as it can pause for 30 to 40
> seconds at a time.  What should be a quick note can take 5 to 7 minutes
> to complete.  I have been running Evolution since the early ones and
> this is the first time I have encountered a problem.

There is a known issue that can lead to hangs while composing mail due a
faulty /etc/hosts file. This definitely was reported for Mandrake under
certain circumstances.

The issue is, there may be an entry for localhost missing in your
/etc/hosts file. Check your hosts file to contain a line like this:

127.0.0.1  localhost  localhost.localdomain

The last field can be safely omitted, additional whitespaces don't
matter.


> IBM Thinkpad, P3 900Mhz 256Mb RAM Mandrake 9.2 

IIRC the hangs where never reported to last for 30 seconds but about 5
seconds. However, his may be due to otherwise screwed up DNS settings on
your laptop. Do you use a local DNS server?

...guenther


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