Bug 456516 – crash on startup, 100% reproducible

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Bug 456516 - crash on startup, 100% reproducible


Summary:	crash on startup, 100% reproducible


Status:	RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

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

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Depends on:
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Reported:	2007-07-13 09:32 UTC by Matt Davey
Modified:	2008-02-25 11:58 UTC

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Description Matt Davey 2007-07-13 09:32:19 UTC

rpm -q evolution evolution-data-server
evolution-2.8.3-2.fc6
evolution-data-server-1.8.3-7.fc6

I have recently been having a lot of trouble with Evolution.  Hard to say what started it off, but I've been getting random crashes (see bug 451902).

After the most recent such crash, I am now unable to start Evolution.  Immediately upon startup, I get the following crash (see attachment for all-thread backtrace).  I'm going to delete the .cmeta etc files as I think that's what got me going last time this happened.

It's getting really hard to stick with Evolution.  It seems to be very unstable for me now :( :(


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

+ Trace 147722

Thread NaN (LWP 9534)

#0 camel_partition_table_lookup
at camel-partition-table.c line 302
#1 text_index_has_name
at camel-text-index.c line 579
#2 camel_index_has_name
at camel-index.c line 175
#3 mh_summary_check
at camel-mh-summary.c line 271
#4 camel_local_summary_check
at camel-local-summary.c line 268
#5 local_refresh_info
at camel-local-folder.c line 476
#6 camel_folder_refresh_info
at camel-folder.c line 298
#7 refresh_folders_get
at mail-send-recv.c line 751
#8 mail_msg_received
at mail-mt.c line 582
#9 e_msgport_reply
from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7
#10 start_thread
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#11 clone
from /lib/libc.so.6

Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-07-13 15:58:51 UTC

also see bug 308074, and bug 324008

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2007-08-15 07:10:49 UTC

It seems to me like broken indexes, so recreate .index and .index.data files can help, I hope. But just guess. (With recreate I meant to move them somewhere else and run Evolution, which should recreate them on startup, but it can take a bit longer, depends on number of mails, so be patient during first startup after remove).

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2008-02-22 16:12:01 UTC

Do you still face this issue?

Comment 4 Matt Davey 2008-02-25 09:58:29 UTC

I am now running ubuntu 7.10 with evolution 2.12.1.  I have not had this trouble in quite a while, quite possibly since moving off the fc7 version last summer.

Comment 5 Milan Crha 2008-02-25 11:58:14 UTC

I do not want to say it has been fixed, because as andre pointed above, the first bug is still opened. I will close this and we can hope it will be fixed in time as that bug too. (It sounds very silly, isn't it?) I also saw Sankar created a patch to ask users to recreate summary in case they are broken, so it will help here definitely.