evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()

[dino99]

Binary package hint: evolution

found in var/crash several days later

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.14.so.19
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio boinc cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse kmem lpadmin plugdev pulse pulse-access pulse-rt root scanner vboxusers video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /usr/lib/libgtkhtml-3.14.so.19
_gdk_pixbuf_marshal_VOID__INT_INT_INT_INT (
g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[dino99 (9d9)]

hi Pedro,
i try to do a backtrace, after following the wiki above , added all needed in sources.list, and updated the repos, i can't do anything else coz of:
  Lecture des listes de paquets... Erreur !
E: Vous avez dépassé le nombre de descriptions que cette version d'APT est capable de traiter.
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ddebs.ubuntu.com_dists_intrepid_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: Les listes de paquets ou le fichier « status » ne peuvent être analysés ou lus.

I've removed /var/lib/apt/lists/ and update again, but same problem
Own translation for you:
- out range number of descriptions that APT version is able to treat
- <<status>> can't be analyzed or read
note that when i open synaptic, that warning appear and synaptic close.

[dino99 (9d9)]

hi Pedro,
after googling about that, i follow ideas described on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/24626
but increasing Apt:: cache-limit to very high value, do not resolve the problem (bug reported on 2005 and still "confirmed low" !!!)

seems that: ddebs.ubuntu.com_dists_intrepid_universe_binary-i386_Packages is the key of problem
if i don't use that repo, is backtrace be available ?

[dino99 (9d9)]

can't find a workaround: i've disabling the last added repos to be able to use synaptic again

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue? could you get a stacktrace?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.