[Evolution] Bug#764495: evolution-ews: log spam fills all disk space

[Ross Vandegrift]

Package: evolution-ews
Version: 3.12.6-1
Severity: important

Today, I exited evolution and unplugged the ethernet cable from my
laptop.  evolution-calendar-factory, running in the background, started
outputting the following message 8000 times per second:

org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Calendar4[1345]: (evolution-calendar-factory:1989): libeews-CRITICAL **: e_ews_notification_get_events_sync: assertion 'notification->priv->connection != NULL' failed

Please disable this logging, or at least rate limit it to something
sane.

This bug is important because in a default jessie install, this output
go to syslog - thus, they quickly filled up my root partition, rendering
the system inoperable.

I'm not sure why ~/.xsession-errors is being redirected to syslog - I'll
track that down next and file a second bug against the responsible
package.

Thanks,
Ross


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

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evolution-ews depends on:
ii  evolution                   3.12.6-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                 2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                       2.19-11
ii  libcairo-gobject2           1.12.16-5
ii  libcairo2                   1.12.16-5
ii  libcamel-1.2-49             3.12.6-1
ii  libebackend-1.2-7           3.12.6-1
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-0     3.12.6-1
ii  libecal-1.2-16              3.12.6-1
ii  libedata-book-1.2-20        3.12.6-1
ii  libedata-cal-1.2-23         3.12.6-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-18       3.12.6-1
ii  libenchant1c2a              1.6.0-10.1
ii  libevolution                3.12.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0          2.30.8-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.42.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                  3.12.2-3+b1
ii  libgtkhtml-4.0-0            4.8.4-3
ii  libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0     4.8.4-3
ii  libical1                    1.0-1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0  2.4.5-2
ii  libnspr4                    2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                     2:3.17.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.36.7-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0         1.36.7-1
ii  libsecret-1-0               0.18-1+b1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                2.48.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                3.8.6-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0          2.4.5-2
ii  libxml2                     2.9.1+dfsg1-4

evolution-ews recommends no packages.

evolution-ews suggests no packages.

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