Evolution freezes every time after a Google iCal is added

[Roshan George]

After adding a Google iCal, Evolution crashes and does not start again. It is impossible to then remove the iCal setting because clicking the Calendar tab in Evolution makes it freeze. Clicking the clock applet to display the calendar will freeze gnome-panel.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use a Google Calendar account iCal feed.
2. Subscribe to it in Evolution.

I'd give more detailed information, but I can't check what I've done because I can't access the Calendars page ever since the gvfs upgrade yesterday (Apr 16).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

I am unable to reproduce the bug now, sorry. If it ever occurs again I will provide that information in a bug report. Everything is working fine now.

Odd, it persisted through reboots. Might have been due to a problem in the connection.

Thanks for your time.

[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.

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

Hi Sebastien,

The problem has recurred. If I start Evolution, it simply refuses to start, hanging at the screen where the mailboxes are loading. I installed the evolution-dbg and evolution-data-server-dbg packages and obtained the backtrace attached.

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

I am reopening this because the issue recurred and I'm not sure if anyone is notified unless it is open.

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

I started Evolution (with gdb) again a little while later (I had previously clicked Force Quit on the previous Evolution window). A dialog box came up asking me if I wanted to Ignore the previous crash or Recover from it. I was unable to click either of the options - there was simply no response to clicking on them.

After this I ran Evolution (with gdb again) again, and immediately after that the recovery dialog disappeared and Evolution started. I now had two responsive Evolution windows.

I then clicked the 'Calendars' tab on the first Evolution window at which point it froze. The backtrace attached with this comment is the backtrace from this Evolution window.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you see if evolution-data-server is crashing?

[Roshan George (roshan-george)]

It went away again. But it is so annoying when it comes back that I upgraded to Jaunty just to avoid it. It hasn't recurred since I upgraded.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the libical upgrade on bug #368508 should workaround the bug, could you give it a try and comment on the other bug to say if it makes a difference for your issue?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

did anybody tried the update on the bug Sebastien said on previous comment? does that fixes the issue?

[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.