[Evolution] Bug#495530: evolution: Evolution tries to allocate 30gb ram, crashes

Michael Below mbelow at antithese.de
Thu Dec 10 11:41:21 UTC 2009


Package: evolution
Version: 2.28.1-2
Severity: normal


I'm not sure if this is related to bug #495530:

I have migrated my home directory from an i386 system to an AMD64
system, there is a Mail directory containing 1,8 GB mail in MH
format. 

When I start evolution from command line, there is a popup that mail is 
being migrated from evolution 2.24 format. The status bar doesn't proceed, 
instead there is an error message and evolution is closed immediately: 

GLib-ERROR **:/tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.22.3/glib/gmem.c:136: failed to allocate
31739410856 bytes

In GDB it looks like this:

mbelow at ossietzky:~$ gdb evolution 
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-debian
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/evolution...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/evolution 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

(evolution:14372): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called
with NULL parameter.
[New Thread 0x7fffdc1da910 (LWP 14427)]
[Thread 0x7fffdc1da910 (LWP 14427) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffdc1da910 (LWP 14428)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdb9d9910 (LWP 14429)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdb1d8910 (LWP 14430)]
[New Thread 0x7fffda9d7910 (LWP 14431)]
[New Thread 0x7fffda1d6910 (LWP 14432)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd99d5910 (LWP 14433)]

GLib-ERROR **: /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.22.3/glib/gmem.c:136: failed
to allocate 31739410856 bytes
aborting...

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffd99d5910 (LWP 14433)]
0x00007fffec08af55 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) 

I have been using evolution rarely on the old system, so
the config files may be old, but removing the .evolution directory
doesn't change anything.

I have asked the evolution team on their IRC channel, they said it
was a known bug in 2.26 and should be gone in 2.28, so I waited
for 2.28 to reach testing before reporting this. But obviously the 
problem isn't gone.

Thanks

Michael Below

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.28            Debian configuration management sy
ii  evolution-common       2.28.1-2          architecture independent files for
ii  evolution-data-server  2.28.1-1          evolution database backend server
ii  gconf2                 2.28.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.28.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.28.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbluetooth3          4.57-1            Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.24.2-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.24.2-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.8-2           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcamel1.2-14         2.28.1-1          The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.16-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-2            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebackend1.2-0       2.28.1-1          Utility library for evolution data
ii  libebook1.2-9          2.28.1-1          Client library for evolution addre
ii  libecal1.2-7           2.28.1-1          Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-11   2.28.1-1          Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8  2.28.1-1          GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libegroupwise1.2-13    2.28.1-1          Client library for accessing group
ii  libenchant1c2a         1.4.2-3.4         a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libexchange-storage1.2 2.28.1-1          Client library for accessing Excha
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.11-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgdata-google1.2-1   2.28.1-1          Client library for accessing Googl
ii  libgdata1.2-1          2.28.1-1          Client library for accessing Googl
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.4-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.3-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11  2.28.1-3          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-pilot2        2.0.15-2.4        Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii  libgnome2-0            2.28.0-1          The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.26.0-1          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.2-1          The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.24.2-1        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.18.3-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkhtml-editor0     3.28.1-1          HTML rendering/editing library - e
ii  libgtkhtml3.14-19      3.28.1-1          HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libgweather1           2.28.0-1          GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1                0.5.13-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libical0               0.43-3            iCalendar library implementation i
ii  libice6                2:1.0.6-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.17-2.1        OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.5-1           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.8.2-1           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.4-1          Network Security Service libraries
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-2       libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.26.1-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpisock9             0.12.4-6          library for communicating with a P
ii  libpisync1             0.12.4-6          synchronization library for PalmOS
ii  libpopt0               1.15-1            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.28.1-3          an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsqlite3-0           3.6.20-1          SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-13       userspace USB programming library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.2-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.6.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  bogofilter               1.2.0-1         a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy
ii  evolution-plugins        2.28.1-2        standard plugins for Evolution
ii  evolution-webcal         2.28.0-1        webcal: URL handler for GNOME and 
ii  gnome-desktop-data       2.28.1-3        Common files for GNOME desktop app
ii  gnome-pilot-conduits     2.0.15-1.2      conduits for gnome-pilot
ii  spamassassin             3.2.5-6         Perl-based spam filter using text 
ii  yelp                     2.28.0+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  bug-buddy                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  evolution-dbg                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  evolution-exchange            2.28.1-1   Exchange plugin for the Evolution 
pn  evolution-plugins-experimenta <none>     (no description available)
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-2   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  network-manager               0.7.2-2    network management framework daemo

-- debconf information:
  evolution/needs_shutdown:





More information about the Pkg-evolution-maintainers mailing list