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evolution-data-server package

evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_create_instance()

Bug #690178 reported by old_toby on 2010-12-14

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This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution-data-server (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Natty Alpha 1

Evolution crashes when I:
- double-click on the calendar to make a new appointment
- click on File->New->Appointment
- click on File->New->Task
- right-click on an existing appointment
- double-click on an existing appointment

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evolution 2.32.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-9.22-generic 2.6.37-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Dec 13 09:25:29 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcCwd: /home/simon
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
Segfault happened at: 0x96849b: cmp %cl,(%edx)
PC (0x0096849b) ok
source "%cl" ok
destination "(%edx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? () from /usr/lib/libedataserverui-1.2.so.11
?? () from /usr/lib/libedataserverui-1.2.so.11
?? () from /usr/lib/libedataserverui-1.2.so.11
g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_create_instance()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Related branches

lp://staging/~cyphermox/evolution-data-server/lp690178-lp689771

Merged into lp://staging/~ubuntu-desktop/evolution-data-server/ubuntu at revision 72

Ubuntu Desktop: Pending requested 2010-12-16

lp://staging/~ubuntu-desktop/evolution-data-server/ubuntu

lp://staging/ubuntu/natty/evolution-data-server

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old_toby (simon-hornweb) wrote on 2010-12-14:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (501 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (75.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (780 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (479 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (11.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (14.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-12-14:

#2

StacktraceTop:
__strcmp_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strcmp-ssse3.S:77
search_changed (name_selector_dialog=0xadc9c220)
setup_name_selector_model (
e_name_selector_dialog_init (
?? ()

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-12-14: Stacktrace.txt

#3

Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2010-12-14: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-i386-retrace

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote on 2010-12-14:

#5

I am seeing this also, on amd64.

visibility:	private → public
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote on 2010-12-14:

#6

And so am I. Calendar is completely unusable.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-12-14

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2010-12-15:

#7

Found a possible fix in correctly filling/retrieving categories for the name selector.

affects:	evolution (Ubuntu) → evolution-data-server (Ubuntu)
Changed in evolution-data-server (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-12-17:

#8

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-data-server - 2.32.1-0ubuntu3

---------------
evolution-data-server (2.32.1-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/03-gdata-0.7-port.patch: Fix FTBFS with new libgdata 0.7
    (port to gdata 0.7).
  * debian/patches/199-git-backport-2.32.1-to-b08a6a1.patch: backport patches
    from the upstream gnome-2-32 git tree up to commit b08a6a1:
    - Bug #633181 - Deadlock after moving some mails in maildir
    - Bug #634573 - Crash when importing ics file
    - Bug #635550 - e-calendar-factory leaks memory
    - Bug #635673 - Stack overflow when opening slow calendar
    - Bug #624420 - Crash camel_imapx_server_append_message
    - Bug #625048 - Fails to detect America/New York system timezone
    - bmo#6498 - Filters are not applied to imapx Inboxes
    - Do not store and generate local:/system URIs (LP: #689771)
    - Bug #634385 - Crash in smtp_connect
  * debian/patches/110-git-name-selector-fixes.patch: properly populate and
    retrieve contact categories in the name selector dialog's category combo
    box. (LP: #690178)
-- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:28:20 -0500

Changed in evolution-data-server (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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