[apport] evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in ect_check()

[Duncan Lithgow]

Binary package hint: evolution

Feisty Herd 4. Evolution 2.9.91 with evolution-dbg installed

I wasn't really doing anything. Evolution was finished downloading and sending, I was just browsing and deleting emails.

ProblemType: Crash
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Feb 26 19:42:25 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/evolution-2.10
Package: evolution 2.9.91-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcCwd: /home/duncan
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 ect_check (a11y=<value optimized out>)
 ect_get_name (a11y=0x8fbcd60) at gal-a11y-e-cell-text.c:81
 atk_object_get_name () from /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux duncan-laptop 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, that's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330728

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream applied a workaround

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

When would this upstream work-around show up in feisty?

I have 2.9.92-0ubuntu1 installed here and still seeing this.

Crash filed in bug 91689.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the bug:

 evolution (2.10.0-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - workaround "evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in ect_check()"
       (Ubuntu: #88090)
   * debian/control:
     - updated for gtkhtml versionning change
   * debian/evolution-2.2.desktop:
     - updated to use non versionned command and icon
   * debian/patches/02_icon.patch:
     - dropped, the icon name has changed upstream (Ubuntu: #88439)
   * debian/patches/04_autoreconf.patch:
     - updated

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Reopening this bug, because it is still open in the upstream tracker.
It's casused by a11y. So disable it as a workaround, from System -> Preferences -> Assistive
Technologies

[fishears (johnnyp-ntlworld)]

I just reported bug 674094 which has been marked as a duplicate of this bug which is now getting close to 4 years old. I appreciate that there is a workaround for people who don't need assistive technologies on their desktop but I'm amazed that this bug is taking so long to fix. This is the default Ubuntu mail client after all.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this bug is fixed in evolution 2.32
from evolution developers
"""
After seeing no less than five crash reports about this in one week, I have
fixed the crash by removing accessibility support for the ECellText class in
2.32 and 2.91.

If ever we get someone to update our accessibility code then we can bring this
back and let him/her try and debug the crash. But until then, whatever
accessibility features the code was providing is not worth having to tell
everyone to turn off GNOME's accessibility support in order to use Evolution.
"""

[maros84 (mdabrowski84)]

I tried this method and it didn't work for me:
So disable it as a workaround, from System -> Preferences -> Assistive
 Technologies

I had to additionally disable Visual Assistance from the Startup Application tool. This fixed all of my issues with evolution and the whole GNOME. Memory usage was quite high in some situations and this thing removed it completely.

It looks like Visual Assistance tool is causing some issues in gtk.