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Bug 429410 - Evolution crashes upon first launch
Evolution crashes upon first launch
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 425129
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-04-13 16:38 UTC by passer
Modified: 2007-04-26 11:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description passer 2007-04-13 16:38:01 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install ubuntu 6.10. Don't start Evolution
2. Apply all updates for yesterday or today (April 13 2007)
3. Start Eviolution for the first time
4. It crashes every time

Stack trace:
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy)
Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-10-02 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0

Memory status: size: 83390464 vsize: 0 resident: 83390464 share: 0 rss: 23977984 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 1176481842 rtime: 0 utime: 153 stime: 0 cutime:140 cstime: 0 timeout: 13 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evolution-2.8'

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0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 127503

Thread 1 (Thread -1232607568 (LWP 6498))

  • #0 __kernel_vsyscall
  • #1 waitpid
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #2 gnome_gtk_module_info_get
    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
  • #3 main
  • #0 __kernel_vsyscall 


Other information:
Other users can run Evolution well, if they first launched it BEFORE the last  updates.
Moving the whole .evolution directory to the new user's folder doesn't help.
Comment 1 Susana 2007-04-19 21:09:03 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
Unfortunately, that stack trace is missing some elements that will help a lot
to solve the problem, so it will be hard for the developers to fix that crash.
Could you please install some debugging packages [1], start the application as
normal, and reproduce the crash, if possible?

Once bug-buddy pops up, you can find the stacktrace in the Details, now
containing way more information. Please copy that stacktrace and paste it as a
comment here. Thanks in advance!

[1] debugging packages for evolution, evolution-data-server, gtkhtml, gtk,
glib, gnome-vfs, libgnome and libgnomeui (as far as those packages are provided
by your distribution). More details can be found here:
http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces
Comment 2 passer 2007-04-20 07:51:45 UTC 
Ok, I'm sorry, I was stupid to submit a series of (no debugging symbols found). Here is something more detailed:

Distribution: Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy)
Gnome Release: 2.16.1 2006-10-02 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.16.0

Memory status: size: 114995200 vsize: 0 resident: 114995200 share: 0 rss: 23760896 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 1177055195 rtime: 0 utime: 120 stime: 0 cutime:108 cstime: 0 timeout: 12 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evolution-2.8'

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1232611664 (LWP 1663)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 129222

Thread 1 (Thread -1232611664 (LWP 1663))

  • #0 __kernel_vsyscall
  • #1 waitpid
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #2 gnome_gtk_module_info_get
    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
  • #3 segv_redirect
    at main.c line 426
  • #4 <signal handler called>
  • #5 strcmp
    from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  • #6 icaltimezone_get_builtin_timezone_from_offset
    from /usr/lib/libecal-1.2.so.7
  • #7 e_timezone_dialog_set_timezone
    at e-timezone-dialog.c line 327
  • #8 startup_wizard_timezone_page
    at startup-wizard.c line 113
  • #9 epl_invoke
    at e-plugin.c line 874
  • #10 e_plugin_invoke
    at e-plugin.c line 663
  • #11 ech_config_widget_factory
    at e-config.c line 1353
  • #12 ec_rebuild
    at e-config.c line 568
  • #13 e_config_create_widget
    at e-config.c line 852
  • #14 e_config_create_window
    at e-config.c line 897
  • #15 em_account_editor_new
    at em-account-editor.c line 2832
  • #16 startup_wizard
    at startup-wizard.c line 83
  • #17 epl_invoke
    at e-plugin.c line 874
  • #18 e_plugin_invoke
    at e-plugin.c line 663
  • #19 emph_event_handle
    at e-event.c line 407
  • #20 e_event_emit
    at e-event.c line 296
  • #21 e_shell_attempt_upgrade
    at e-shell.c line 906
  • #22 e_shell_construct
    at e-shell.c line 690
  • #23 e_shell_new
    at e-shell.c line 736
  • #24 idle_cb
    at main.c line 350
  • #25 g_source_is_destroyed
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #26 g_main_context_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #27 g_main_context_check
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #28 g_main_loop_run
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #29 bonobo_main
    from /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0
  • #30 main
    at main.c line 615
  • #0 __kernel_vsyscall
Comment 3 palfrey 2007-04-26 11:15:45 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 425129 ***