486980 - eudora 8b5 hangs if "Enable Message Indexer" is set

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[lester]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB5; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)
Build Identifier: http://Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090108 Eudora/3.0b1pre

Definitely weird that nobody reported this previously.  It's blatant on my machine, which has 210,000 messages.

If "enable message indexer" is set, some mailboxes produce an houglass interminably.  This is intermittent, sometimes fixed by restarting Eudora.  Still occurs if I inactivate X1 or other search software. 

Uncheck the box (tools / options / advanced), and all is sweetness & light.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to open a mailbox by clicking in the mailbox window
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Watch the hourglass.  Get coffee.  Still there.

Expected Results:  
Show have opened the mailbox and showed messages.

Show have opened the mailbox and showed messages.

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

I THINK this is related to 459910 so I am marking it as a duplicate of that bug. If you think this is not a duplicate, please let me know.

Matt

Comment 2

[lester]

Different bug, in my untotuored opinion.

1.    I run XP, not Vista
2.    Only Eudora hangs, not the OS; and only partially.

It hangs at the point where the status bar would read, "Building summary file for . . .".  But the message never appears, instead the hourglass.  Temporarily banishing X1 (6.2) from the computer may have solved the problem; I don't have time to chase this rigorously.  The most likely hypothesis is that a possibly corrupt X1 may be locking the mailbox or summary file.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

Comment 3

[Matt Dudziak]

OK, re-opening as non-duplicate.

Matt

Comment 4

[Matt Dudziak]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Different bug, in my untotuored opinion.
> 
> 1.    I run XP, not Vista
> 2.    Only Eudora hangs, not the OS; and only partially.
> 
> It hangs at the point where the status bar would read, "Building summary file
> for . . .".  But the message never appears, instead the hourglass.  Temporarily
> banishing X1 (6.2) from the computer may have solved the problem; I don't have
> time to chase this rigorously.  The most likely hypothesis is that a possibly
> corrupt X1 may be locking the mailbox or summary file.
> 
> Further bulletins as events warrant.


Are you still seeing this now that all the indexed search changes have been integrated?

Thanks, Matt

Comment 5

[Matt Dudziak]

I'm assuming that no news is good news here. Closing.