Bug 242770 – Evolution mail crashes on startup

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Bug 242770 - Evolution mail crashes on startup


Summary:	Evolution mail crashes on startup


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243160

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	Mailer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	evolution-mail-maintainers
QA Contact:	Evolution QA team

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2003-05-11 19:04 UTC by giray
Modified:	2003-05-16 17:46 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	---

Description giray 2003-05-11 19:04:33 UTC

Package: Evolution
Priority: Normal
Version: 1.2.2
Synopsis: Evolution mail crashes on startup
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Mailer

Description:
Description of Problem:

Evolution Mail crashes on starup with a segmentation fault , summary
page comes up anyways.


Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. start evolution 


Actual Results:
Gnome  Bug Windows pops up with PID saying that the process encountered
a seg fault ... 

Expected Results:
Mail window

How often does this happen?
Every time ... 

Additional Information:
This problem is specific to a single user.  strace shows that evolution
starts reading in
the mail folders  and gets stuck at
~/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/personal.mail
(personal.mail is a folder created by the user)

RH 9,  Evolution version 1.2.2-4 (RH)





Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evolution-mail'

(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1091455488 (LWP 4517)]
[New Thread 1116941376 (LWP 4559)]
[New Thread 1102957760 (LWP 4558)]
0xffffe002 in ?? ()

+ Trace 36775

Thread 2 (Thread 1116941376 (LWP 4559))

#0 ??
#1 message_browser_get_type
#2 <signal handler called>
#3 camel_partition_table_sync
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#4 camel_stream_write_to_stream
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#5 camel_index_sync
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#6 camel_stream_write_to_stream
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#7 camel_object_unref
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#8 camel_text_index_new
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#9 camel_local_folder_construct
from /usr/lib/evolution/1.2/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
#10 camel_mbox_folder_new
from /usr/lib/evolution/1.2/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
#11 camel_mbox_store_get_type
from /usr/lib/evolution/1.2/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
#12 camel_store_get_folder
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#13 mail_importer_uninit
#14 mail_importer_uninit
#15 camel_store_get_folder
from /usr/lib/libcamel.so.0
#16 mail_tool_uri_to_folder
#17 mail_build_attachment
#18 mail_msg_wait_all
#19 e_thread_busy
from /usr/lib/evolution/1.2/libeutil.so.0
#20 e_thread_busy
from /usr/lib/evolution/1.2/libeutil.so.0
#21 start_thread
from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0



Unknown reporter: giray@devlet.cc, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com.
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.

Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-05-13 17:35:22 UTC

unfortunately the backtrace doesn't provide any clues.

Comment 2 Dan Winship 2003-05-16 17:46:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243160 ***