GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 215889
ibex Crash when downloadin mail.
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:02:48 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: P1 Version: 0.99.2 Synopsis: Crash when downloadin mail. Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: I started to download mail from my SSL POP3 account. Debugging Information: [New Thread 1024 (LWP 2607)] [New Thread 2049 (LWP 2630)] [New Thread 1026 (LWP 2631)] [New Thread 2051 (LWP 2632)] [New Thread 3076 (LWP 2633)] [New Thread 4101 (LWP 2635)] [New Thread 5126 (LWP 2640)] [New Thread 6151 (LWP 2641)] [New Thread 7176 (LWP 2642)] [New Thread 8201 (LWP 2653)] 0x40b6ace9 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
+ Trace 13924
Thread 7 (Thread 5126 (LWP 2640))
Unknown priority P1. Setting to default priority "Normal".
I did find the problem, there was a corrupt mbox.ibex file. It was crashing on download because my filters would try to store a message in a folder, but that folder had a corrupt file. Deleting the mbox.ibex and restarting fixed the problem. It may be difficult, but it would be nice for evolution to detect corrupt ibex files and remove them instead of crashing.
Thanks for tracking this down, haddock. Sorry it took so long to get to.
looks like something gone amuck in libibex. assigning to notzed since I know basically 0 about libibex.
evolution does try to detect bad index files and recover. I guess you found a rare case when it didn't. I dont think this can be fixed with the current code, other than saying 'remove the old ibex file'. I've nearly written a new indexing mechanism, but that wont go into action till 1.2 or later.
*** bug 218474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
in the 1.2 tree the code has been redone, so if this happens again its a new bug.