[Evolution] Bug#280662: After update,
Evolution always crashes at startup if ~/.evolution present
Francois Taiani
f.taiani at computer.org
Wed Aug 17 14:20:44 UTC 2005
Package: evolution
Version: 2.2.2-4
Followup-For: Bug #280662
I have a very similar problem to the one reported above. I have updated my
debian installation (and evolution was not among the update packages)
yesterday, and since this evolution always crashes at startup if
~/.evolution is present.
If ~/.evolution is *not* present, evolution starts up correctly, but
crashes on exit, or in the middle of the excution if the GUI is
exercised a bit too much (repeatedly switching between the mail and
calendar view for instance). It also sets up a new ~/.evolution, and if
launched again will crash at start up.
I've use gdb to get an idea of where the crash happens. It apparently
always is a segmentation fault in the same function of libgal. (But
since it's a seg fault, the problem might not be in libgal at all if I'm
not mistaken.)
---
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 13996)]
0x0f8285a8 in e_canvas_hide_tooltip () from /usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
---
My gdb install has some issue with stack interpretation, so the only
backtrace I get is the following one:
---
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0f8285a8 in e_canvas_hide_tooltip () from /usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#1 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#2 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#3 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#4 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#5 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#6 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#7 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#8 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#9 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#10 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#11 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#12 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#13 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#14 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#15 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
#16 0x0f864f68 in e_table_item_redraw_range () from
/usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
----
The (corrupt stack?) message is a gdb issue on powerpc, no something
related to evolution.
It appears the only workaround for me is to go back to version 1.0.5
(sarge) (sigh).
Kind regards
Francois
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc6-fta
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii evolution-data-server1 1.2.2-5.1 evolution database backend server
ii gconf2 2.10.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.10.1-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gtkhtml3.6 3.6.2-1 HTML rendering/editing library - b
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcamel1.2-0 1.2.2-5.1 The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii libcompfaceg1 1989.11.11-24 Compress/decompress images for mai
ii libdb4.1 4.1.25-18 Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii libebook1.2-3 1.2.2-5.1 Client library for evolution addre
ii libecal1.2-2 1.2.2-5.1 Client library for evolution calen
ii libedataserver1.2-4 1.2.2-5.1 Utily library for evolution data s
ii libedataserverui1.2-4 1.2.2-5.1 GUI utily library for evolution da
ii libesd0 0.2.36-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgail-common 1.8.4-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail17 1.8.4-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgal2.4-0 2.4.2-1 G App Libs (run time library)
ii libgal2.4-common 2.4.2-1 G App Libs (common files)
ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.1-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.3-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.12-1.2 Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.10.3-2 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.10.2-2 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.1 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.1-4 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.8-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkhtml3.6-18 3.6.2-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap2 2.1.30-11 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libnspr4 2:1.7.8-1sarge1 Netscape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3 2:1.7.8-1sarge1 Network Security Service Libraries
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.2-3 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock8 0.11.8-10 Library for communicating with a P
ii libpisync0 0.11.8-10 Synchronization library for PalmOS
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libsoup2.2-7 2.2.3-2 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.13-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.20-1 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages evolution recommends:
pn evolution-plugins <none> (no description available)
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.8.3-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
pn gnome-pilot-conduits <none> (no description available)
ii mozilla-psm 2:1.7.8-1sarge1 The Mozilla Internet application s
ii spamassassin 3.0.4-2 Perl-based spam filter using text
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