Bug 347775 – crash when entering an appointment and resizing it

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Bug 347775 - crash when entering an appointment and resizing it


Summary:	crash when entering an appointment and resizing it


Status:	RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	Calendar
Version:	2.8.x (obsolete)
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal major
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	evolution-calendar-maintainers
QA Contact:	Evolution QA team

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Reported:	2006-07-17 12:59 UTC by André Klapper
Modified:	2010-02-18 03:14 UTC

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Description André Klapper 2006-07-17 12:59:10 UTC

evolution 2.7.4 cvs head, calendar day view.
changed the time divisions from 15min to 5min.
added an appointment by directly entering it.
wanted to resize it and so put the mouse over the appointment, evo crashed (no pop up if i remember correctly)


Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome/libexec/evolution-2.8'

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1236703568 (LWP 4518)]
[New Thread -1410028640 (LWP 4520)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 69386

Thread 1 (Thread -1236703568 (LWP 4518))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
#1 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 867
#3 segv_redirect
at main.c line 425
#4 <signal handler called>
#5 pvl_head
at pvl.c line 542
#6 icalproperty_new_clone
at icalproperty.c line 155
#7 icalcomponent_new_clone
at icalcomponent.c line 199
#8 e_week_view_reshape_event_span
at e-week-view.c line 2631
#9 e_week_view_reshape_events
at e-week-view.c line 2480
#10 e_week_view_check_layout
at e-week-view.c line 2423
#11 e_week_view_layout_timeout_cb
at e-week-view.c line 4217
#12 g_timeout_dispatch
at gmain.c line 3420
#13 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2043
#14 IA__g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2594
#15 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 2675
#16 IA__g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 2879
#17 bonobo_main
at bonobo-main.c line 311
#18 main
at main.c line 614

Comment 1 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-07-18 11:55:26 UTC

Yeah, pvl_head() doesn't like to be called wit a NULL pointer. ;)

Comment 2 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-07-22 19:17:09 UTC

Cross reference:  Same issue with pvl_head() for bug 319076.

Comment 3 André Klapper 2006-08-01 19:48:02 UTC

hehe... pvl_head() doesn't like to be called wit a NULL pointer, also see bug 349150, bug 329569, ...

i interpret this as a confirmation. ;-)

Comment 4 Suman Manjunath 2007-08-23 08:48:20 UTC

I was unable to reproduce this bug in SVN trunk.. 2.11.x :(

One observation on the bug:

e_week_view_* - these are used by week/month views only.. 
[day/work-week views use e_day_view_*]

Andre, could you please try to reproduce the bug in latest stable version of Evolution [2.10.x] ?

Comment 5 André Klapper 2007-08-23 10:37:34 UTC

suman: no, because i don't have a 2.10.x build here

Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:26:55 UTC

Bumping version to a stable release.

Comment 7 Akhil Laddha 2010-01-06 12:12:43 UTC

Calendar view code has been rewritten in 2.26.x. 


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The current stable GNOME and Evolution version is 2.28.
Please check if the problem you reported here still occurs with a recent version of GNOME by reporting back which exact version you tested against

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Comment 8 Akhil Laddha 2010-02-18 03:14:58 UTC

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please 
feel free to reopen the bug if the problem still occurs with a newer
version of GNOME 2.28.2 or later, thanks.