evolution crashes shortly after opening when evolution-indicator is installed

Bug #1203414 reported by ais523
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evolution-indicator (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Immediately after upgrading to raring, Evolution crashes soon after loading. I'm not sure what the specific trigger is; sometimes it crashes within under a second even with no action from me, sometimes it lasts up to a minute or so. It tends to crash reliably when I attempt to view any message (via the message preview, or via double-clicking on it with the message preview turned off), though it sometimes also seems to crash due to other triggers; I sometimes see the content of the message for a tiny fraction of a second before the crash. It has managed to receive new emails in the short length of time while it's been open (although I haven't been able to observe what those emails are). The visible symptom is that Evolution simply closes (or, on one occasion, was greyed out by Compiz due to being a stuck process, and had to be force-quit).

apport has since stopped bothering to collect crash dumps, but I've attached one of the crash dumps it did collect to this bug report. Hopefully that will provide more information as to the nature of the problem (and what specific sort of crash is involved).

Expected behaviour is for Evolution to show me the content of the message without crashing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 21 03:52:55 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2009-12-14 (1314 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-07-21 (0 days ago)

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ais523 (ais523) wrote :
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ais523 (ais523) wrote :

Followup: I tried running Evolution in a terminal, and opening a message via double-click to reproduce the crash. I've attached the output that it spewed to the terminal.

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ais523 (ais523) wrote :

The crash appears to be in evolution-indicator from the backtrace, and went away when I uninstalled evolution-indicator, so that's a good guess as to the culprit

affects: evolution (Ubuntu) → evolution-indicator (Ubuntu)
summary: - evolution crashes shortly after opening
+ evolution crashes shortly after opening when evolution-indicator is
+ installed
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ais523 (ais523) wrote :

I just checked on saucy. The bug is still reproducible (evolution crashes with evolution-indicator installed, does not crash if evolution-indicator is not installed).

tags: added: saucy
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ais523 (ais523) wrote :

Cannot reproduce on trusty.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evolution-indicator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Vlad Orlov (monsta) wrote :

Such crashes should be fixed since Ubuntu 14.04, according to bug 1272469.

Changed in evolution-indicator (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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