Evolution freezes on startup

[Andreas Heck]

Binary package hint: evolution

I'm using evolution since feisty on the same box (always upgraded to the next version) and currently i'm using Jaunty since beta. This morning evolution (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) freezes on start up. The main window appears but it gets grey and it never recovers. I already moved my .eclipse directory to a backup location but this doesn't change anything.

strace output is attached.

[Andreas Heck (aheck)]

Unfortunately the bug seems to be quite hard to reproduce. I just recognized that there were other helper processes of evolution running (e.g. evolution-alarm-notify). After I killed them evolution is working again.

[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.

[Andreas Heck (aheck)]

I would like to attach a backtrace very much, but unfortunately I can't reproduce the problem myself. Looks like some processes blocked Evolution in a very rare startup constellation.

Since the moment I killed all Evolution related processes and restarted Evolution everything works without problems. I think this is one of those problems that can be solved by rebooting the computer.

[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.