Bug 53006 – balsa crash when emptying large amounts of email from trash

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Bug 53006 - balsa crash when emptying large amounts of email from trash


Summary:	balsa crash when emptying large amounts of email from trash


Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51701

Product:	balsa
Classification:	Other
Component:	general
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Balsa Maintainers
QA Contact:	Balsa Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2001-04-09 07:56 UTC by landb
Modified:	2009-08-15 18:40 UTC

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

Description landb 2001-04-09 08:01:12 UTC

Package:  balsa
Severity: normal
Version:  1.1.3
Synopsis: balsa crash when emptying large amounts of email from trash
Class:    sw-bug

Distribution: Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
System: Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686 unknown
C library: glibc-2.1.92-14
C compiler: 2.96
glib: 1.2.8
GTK+: 1.2.8
ORBit: ORBit 0.5.3
gnome-libs: gnome-libs 1.2.4
libxml: 1.8.9
gnome-print: gnome-print-0.20-8
gnome-core: gnome-core 1.2.1


Description:
I have tested the bug.  If trash has a large volume of items, and the
trash mailbox is being viewed, emptying the trash causes the application
to crash but to select the first folder just before crashing.


Debugging information:
(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1024 (LWP 2965)]
[New Thread 2049 (LWP 2966)]
[New Thread 5122 (LWP 3016)]
0x406775a9 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6

+ Trace 4651

#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
at wrapsyscall.c line 174
#3 gnome_segv_handle
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32
#4 pthread_sighandler
at signals.c line 97
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 balsa_index_reset
#7 balsa_window_find_current_index
#8 gtk_marshal_NONE__NONE
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#9 gtk_handlers_run
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#10 gtk_signal_real_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#11 gtk_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#12 gtk_widget_activate
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#13 gtk_menu_shell_activate_item
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#14 gtk_menu_shell_button_release
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#15 gtk_marshal_BOOL__POINTER
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#16 gtk_signal_real_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#17 gtk_signal_emit
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#18 gtk_widget_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#19 gtk_propagate_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#20 gtk_main_do_event
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#21 gdk_event_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0
#22 g_main_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#23 g_main_iterate
from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#24 g_main_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#25 gtk_main
from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#26 main
#27 __libc_start_main
at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c line 111
#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
at wrapsyscall.c line 174
#3 gnome_segv_handle
from /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32
#4 pthread_sighandler
at signals.c line 97
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 balsa_index_reset
#7 balsa_window_find_current_index





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-04-09 04:01 -------

Unknown version 1.1.x in product balsa. Setting version to the default, "unspecified".
The original reporter (landb@mail.net) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, pawsa@theochem.kth.se.

Comment 1 Pawel Salek 2001-04-09 08:05:25 UTC

As workaround, you can make sure that your trash is closed before
emptying it.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51701 ***

Comment 2 Pawel Salek 2001-04-21 18:10:41 UTC

balsa-1.1.4 has been released.