GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 274387
Action | Save Attachments causes Evolution to become nonresponsive or crash
Last modified: 2005-10-08 04:32:10 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/8310 "When I do Action | Save Attachments on an email Evolution either crashes or becomes nonresponsive. This happens on both local and IMAP email accounts ... Update - the crash does NOT happen when I choose a folder to save to via the Browse button. The crash still happens when I fail to choose a folder."
backtrace from the bug: "0xb7a9db61 in waitpid () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
+ Trace 57711
*** Bug 273855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I am experiencing the same problem, however have noticed messages in dmesg, too: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 printing eip: c01f2a71 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: isofs udf video sony_acpi pcc_acpi button battery container a c fglrx ipv6 af_packet snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_ pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soun dcore usbhid ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore sk98lin pci_hotplug via_agp agpgart analo g gameport floppy pcspkr rtc nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat reiserfs md dm_mod capability commoncap it87 eeprom i2c_sensor i2c_isa i2c_viapro i2c_core parport _pc lp parport ide_cd evdev cdrom tsdev mousedev psmouse ext3 jbd mbcache ide_ge neric via82cxxx ide_disk ide_core sd_mod sata_via libata scsi_mod unix thermal p rocessor fan fbcon crc32 font bitblit vesafb cfbcopyarea cfbimgblt cfbfillrect CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01f2a71>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00210287 (2.6.10-2-k7) EIP is at inotify_dev_queue_event+0x74/0x15e eax: 00000000 ebx: d6f1de20 ecx: 00000800 edx: d6364408 esi: 00000800 edi: d08ad8a0 ebp: 00000000 esp: ccb6fe8c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process evolution-2.2 (pid: 9075, threadinfo=ccb6e000 task=ccaf3520) Stack: 95c223c0 000f4213 ccaf3520 ccaf3680 d08ad8a0 00000000 d6364408 ccb6e000 d6364408 d08ad8a0 00000000 c01f30dd d6f1de20 d6364408 00000800 00000000 d08ad8a0 00000000 000081a4 d1cb720c cef6b494 c01626e6 d1cb720c 00000800 Call Trace: [<c01f30dd>] inotify_inode_queue_event+0x57/0x8c [<c01626e6>] vfs_create+0xeb/0x16c [<c0162f6e>] open_namei+0x5b4/0x605 [<c0153035>] filp_open+0x3e/0x64 [<c01532b4>] get_unused_fd+0x37/0xdf [<c0153416>] sys_open+0x44/0xc6 [<c0102ea5>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75 Code: 0f 87 a5 00 00 00 0f 84 b3 00 00 00 81 f9 00 20 00 00 74 2f 81 f9 00 80 00 00 74 27 8b 54 24 18 89 ce 8b 42 08 8b 80 0c 01 00 00 <23> 70 08 85 f6 74 79 81 f9 00 80 00 00 74 09 89 c8 23 42 04 85 <6>note: evolution-2.2[9075] exited with preempt_count 1 My kernel is tainted by fglrx. I'm running Ubuntu (Hoary)
Please file a bug against your kernel component in ubuntu's bugtracker and see if they can help you. Trying without the binary ati drivers would also be of help.
the backtrace shows nothing useful. get another bracktrace, of all threads fwiw the save-attachments plugin is an unsupported demonstration code only
*** Bug 301354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
no response, therefore closing as INCOMPLETE. evo-2.4 does not include that plugin anymore, there's a button in the message pane instead. please feel free to reopen when adding more comments; thanks for reporting anyway.