evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_equal()

Bug #818135 reported by Ngassam Nkwenga
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This bug affects 23 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Invalid
Critical
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm testing Unity 2D, I tried to launched evolution from the new Messaging Menu and Dash, but every time it don't start, it just crashes.
way to reproduce it :
1-look for Evolution (Messaging Menu, Dash ...)
2-launch it
3-see the crash alert.
4- Fix the bug :-)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evolution 3.1.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.8-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Jul 29 17:39:10 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x5576f8: mov (%ecx),%al
 PC (0x005576f8) ok
 source "(%ecx)" (0x1fecc614) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_str_equal () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_hash_table_lookup () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_intern_static_string () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_param_spec_internal () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_equal()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-27 (1 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Ngassam Nkwenga (cyrildz) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 __strcmp_ia32 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/../strcmp.S:39
 g_str_equal (v1=0x1fecc614, v2=0xe1ae614) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.14/./glib/gstring.c:116
 g_hash_table_lookup_node (hash_table=0x20e1ca40, key=0xe1ae614) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.14/./glib/ghash.c:381
 g_hash_table_lookup (hash_table=0x20e1ca40, key=0xe1ae614) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.14/./glib/ghash.c:1022
 g_quark_from_string_internal (string=0xe1ae614 "convert-to-unicode") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.14/./glib/gdataset.c:1172

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
visibility: private → public
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655750

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → New
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Jos Dehaes (jos-dehaes) wrote :
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

At least here, on a fresh install of 08/15 fully updated, evolution installs, configures and starts up fine
My previous A3 install did show this bug

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Confirmed, evolution now starts for me as well. Marking as fixed.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in evolution:
status: New → Invalid
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