Evolution Fails to Start with ERROR **: Error calling StartServiceByName

Bug #1073149 reported by iMac
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Running current Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 on 12.10. Today, starting evolution from command line shows the following message and evolution fails to start.

ERROR **: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources0: Timeout was reached

I have EWS, Gmail and Personal IMAP accounts configured in Evolution.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 30 09:11:57 2012
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-14 (15 days ago)

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iMac (imac-netstatz) wrote :
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iMac (imac-netstatz) wrote :

A closer look, it appears that evolution is segfaulting. I actually expected apport to pick these up on its own, but I guess something must have changed with the automatic crash detection, despite having enabled=1 in my /etc/default/apport.

root@imachp:~# dmesg | grep evol
[ 193.201403] evolution-sourc[3263]: segfault at 7fcc9b1e0000 ip 00007fcc9b25885f sp 00007fffd11315b0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3400.0[7fcc9b1f6000+f5000]
[ 204.402702] evolution-sourc[3514]: segfault at 7fc772330000 ip 00007fc77236c3a7 sp 00007fff69e46bd0 error 7 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3400.0[7fc772338000+f5000]
[ 4902.675555] evolution-sourc[4510]: segfault at 7fed469f0000 ip 00007fed46a6185f sp 00007fffd32913e0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3400.0[7fed469ff000+f5000]
[ 4902.909344] evolution[4502] trap int3 ip:7f28837ccc7f sp:7fff88b3c270 error:0
[ 4981.085751] evolution-sourc[4542]: segfault at 66 ip 00007f97db38b85f sp 00007fff003affb0 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3400.0[7f97db329000+f5000]
[ 4981.195567] evolution[4534] trap int3 ip:7f8ae3d6ec7f sp:7fff113d1950 error:0
[ 5027.014877] evolution[4623] trap int3 ip:7fc1eb753c7f sp:7ffffbe2bab0 error:0

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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