Bug 634051 – Crash in icaltimezone_parse_zone_tab at icaltimezone.c line 1652

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Bug 634051 - Crash in icaltimezone_parse_zone_tab at icaltimezone.c line 1652


Summary:	Crash in icaltimezone_parse_zone_tab at icaltimezone.c line 1652


Status:	RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	Calendar
Version:	2.32.x (obsolete)
Hardware:	Other Linux

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

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2010-11-05 03:18 UTC by Nathaniel Nicandro
Modified:	2017-08-31 13:28 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
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Attachments
gdb backtrace (10.60 KB, text/plain) 2010-11-05 03:18 UTC, Nathaniel Nicandro	Details

Description Nathaniel Nicandro 2010-11-05 03:18:11 UTC

Created attachment 173861 [details]
gdb backtrace

To reproduce run evolution after an update from Fedora13 to Fedora14.


Terminal output:
$ evolution
(evolution:8844): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loading categories from "/home/nathan/.local/share/evolution/categories.xml"
(evolution:8844): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loaded 31 categories

(evolution:8844): libecal-CRITICAL **: e_cal_util_get_system_timezone: assertion `location != NULL' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Comment 1 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-11-05 04:27:53 UTC

paste here the attach bt


(gdb) thread apply all bt full

+ Trace 224499

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7fca880 (LWP 8874))

#0 __strlen_sse2_bsf
at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen-sse2-bsf.S line 52
#1 icaltimezone_parse_zone_tab
at icaltimezone.c line 1652
#2 icaltimezone_get_utc_timezone
at icaltimezone.c line 1528
#3 transform_string_to_icaltimezone
at e-cal-shell-settings.c line 53
#4 e_bind_properties_transfer
at e-binding.c line 72
#5 e_mutual_binding_new_full
at e-binding.c line 433
#6 e_cal_shell_backend_init_settings
at e-cal-shell-settings.c line 605
#7 cal_shell_backend_constructed
at e-cal-shell-backend.c line 708
#8 g_object_newv
at gobject.c line 1490
#9 g_object_new_valist
at gobject.c line 1578
#10 g_object_new
at gobject.c line 1296
#11 extensible_load_extension
at e-extensible.c line 96
#12 e_type_traverse
at e-util.c line 517
#13 e_type_traverse
at e-util.c line 511
#14 e_extensible_load_extensions
at e-extensible.c line 138
#15 e_extensible_list_extensions
at e-extensible.c line 168
#16 e_shell_load_modules
at e-shell.c line 1286
#17 main
at main.c line 641

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2010-11-05 11:10:16 UTC

Downstream bug report about the same:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649585

User was running evolution like this:
 $ evolution --component=mail mailto:user@example.com

Note this can be related to bug #628139.

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2017-08-31 13:28:07 UTC

No duplicates for a long time, I'm closing this.