evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in atk_object_get_name()

[vincent michard]

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution crashes each time I add a column in the contact view ; the column is actually added after restart of evolution.

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

evolution:
  Installé : 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidat : 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.22.2-0ubuntu1.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
     2.22.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Aug 18 19:07:26 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: evolution 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/evolution/2.22/libevolution-a11y.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/evolution/2.22/libevolution-a11y.so.0
 atk_object_get_name () from /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in atk_object_get_name()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev scanner users video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:ect_check (a11y=<value optimized out>)
ect_get_name (a11y=0x85af1b8) at gal-a11y-e-cell-text.c:81
atk_object_get_name (accessible=0x85af1b8) at atkobject.c:572
spi_atk_bridge_init_base (any=0x814b518, obj=0x18,
spi_atk_bridge_init_nil (any=0xbfbc02e0, obj=0x18)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, that's known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330728

[TommyBoy (thomaslloyd)]

The can also be reproduced by following the step found on bug :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487085

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

For the record, this is still an issue with 2.30, the upstream report was updated with that info as well.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for the bug report. this bug is fixed in evolution 2.32 in natty