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evolution crashed with SIGSEGV

Bug #1964922 reported by Stefan Hoppe
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Jammy
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Impact
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The new/edit email dialog in Evolution crashes the app when it is closed.

Test Case
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Install the update
Open the Settings app. Click the About button at the bottom of the left sidebar (you may need to scroll down to see it). Verify that the Windowing System is Wayland.
Open Evolution.
Click the New Email button.
Add some text to the draft email.
Close the dialog.
Choose Discard.
The edit email window should close but Evolution should remain open.

Regression Potential
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One line fix to stop a really annoying crash by disabling hardware acceleration.

The webkitgtk and Ubuntu Desktop developers suspect that switching webkit2gtk to build with the wpebackend will avoid this crash, but it requires main inclusion for additional libraries. The main inclusion will be worked on over the next few months.

Related Bug
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See also https://launchpad.net/bugs/1969584

Original Bug Report
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and it's not possible to write an E-Mail with evolution. Typing in Text is not possible.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: evolution 3.43.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-22.22-generic 5.15.19
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu79
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 15 11:17:02 2022
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-01-21 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220121)
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fb628e6edb6: mov (%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7fb628e6edb6) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
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Stefan Hoppe (friedenaufred) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 webkitWebViewBaseMakeGLContextCurrent () at ./Source/WebKit/UIProcess/API/gtk/WebKitWebViewBase.cpp:2564
 WebKit::WaylandCompositor::Surface::setWebPage () at ./Source/WebKit/UIProcess/gtk/WaylandCompositor.cpp:184
 WebKit::WaylandCompositor::unregisterWebPage () at ./Source/WebKit/UIProcess/gtk/WaylandCompositor.cpp:597
 WebKit::AcceleratedBackingStoreWayland::~AcceleratedBackingStoreWayland () at ./Source/WebKit/UIProcess/gtk/AcceleratedBackingStoreWayland.cpp:246
 WebKit::AcceleratedBackingStoreWayland::~AcceleratedBackingStoreWayland () at ./Source/WebKit/UIProcess/gtk/AcceleratedBackingStoreWayland.cpp:251

tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 WebKit::PingLoad::timeoutTimerFired () at ./Source/WebKit/NetworkProcess/PingLoad.cpp:215
 ?? ()
 closure_invoke_notifiers (notify_type=2, closure=0x1) at ../../../gobject/gclosure.c:289
 _g_closure_invoke_va (param_types=0x55c071454440, n_params=240, args=0x7fff03e5b630, instance=0x55c071d2d080, return_value=0x55c071446dc0, closure=<optimized out>) at ../../../gobject/gclosure.c:892
 g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x55c071d2d080, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>, var_args=<optimized out>) at ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:3407

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Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
information type: Private → Public
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
description: updated
description: updated
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Stefan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted evolution into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/3.44.0-1ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I installed evolution 3.44.0-1ubuntu1 and verified that I was able to use the New Email dialog without it crashing and with it showing my text on the default Ubuntu (on Wayland) session.

tags: added: verification-done verification-needed-done
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
tags: added: verification-done-jammy
removed: verification-needed-done
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 3.44.0-1ubuntu1

---------------
evolution (3.44.0-1ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Update Vcs fields
  * Cherry-pick patch to workaround unusable email editor with Wayland
    (LP: #1969584, #1964922)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:23:04 -0400

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for evolution has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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