evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in giop_recv_buffer_get()

[Paul Wagland]

Binary package hint: evolution

There are similar bugs already reported, however this is a new stacktrace from the current version, all of the previous reports seem to be from prior versions.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Aug 16 15:01:02 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon nvidia
Package: evolution 2.11.90-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcCwd: /home/users/paul
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 giop_recv_buffer_get ()
 ORBit_small_invoke_stub ()
 Bonobo_Unknown_unref ()
 bonobo_object_release_unref ()
 e_cal_view_finalize (object=0xb90b60)
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in giop_recv_buffer_get()
Uname: Linux paul 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner video

[Paul Wagland (paul-kungfoocoder)]

This happened when I was trying to do a full message search on my entire exchange mailbox, which is over 1GB in size. I expected it to take a while, which it did, and then it crashed, which I didn't expect ;-)

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:giop_recv_buffer_get (ent=0x7ffff8c4f090, timeout=0x7ffff8c4f0cc) at giop-recv-buffer.c:733
ORBit_small_invoke_stub (obj=0x25c83e0, m_data=0x2b34b72492a0, ret=0x0, args=0x0, ctx=0x0, ev=0x7ffff8c4f140) at orbit-small.c:658
Bonobo_Unknown_unref (_obj=0x663e50, ev=<value optimized out>) at Bonobo_Unknown-stubs.c:15
bonobo_object_release_unref (object=0x25c83e0, opt_ev=0x0) at bonobo-object.c:577
e_cal_view_finalize (object=0xb90b60) at e-cal-view.c:227

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

This one seems very similar to upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330161. I am not marking it as confirmed (but it is very near so... I retyped this some 3 times, changing between confirming and not confirming :-).

@Paul: can you repeat at will?

Also, is your gutsy up-to-date? Reason for asking is that I see you are running gutsy, but still at kernel 2.6.20, so I wonder about it... if you are not up-to-date, would it be possible to update (except kernel), and try again? But I think you are up-to-date... I looked at a few of the dependencies, and they match current gutsy.

Anyway: the upstream bug suggests race conditions. There, we have the issue during business hours (also involving LDAPs), here on a very long search via exchange... perhaps an Evo exchange trace would give us a bit more of light. Please see http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml, specially the end (Evo Exchange debugging). Probably E2K_DEBUG=2m would do the trick (on both Evolution and evolution-exchange).

[Paul Wagland (paul-kungfoocoder)]

I will try to reproduce this, but will not be near my main machine much in the next week.

And yes, I am fully uptodate, however I also need to run VMWare 5.5, which does not compile against the 2.6.22 kernel, so I still run with a 2.6.20 kernel, but all libraries/packages/et al. are up to date.

[Paul Wagland (paul-kungfoocoder)]

I can reproduce the crash, although it does not always give me the approx popup.

As an aside, since the crash I can only see e-mails that turned up after the crash. I know that they are all still in my mailbox, as I can see them with webmail, do you know how I can force evolution to fully reread the mailbox again? I do have a workaround, in that if I move the mail to another mbox, and then back into the INBOX then evo will see it and download it.... however I have a lot of e-mails in my inbox, and this is a tedious process :-)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Is this still an issue with evolution 2.12?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this report for now, feel free to re open if it is still an issue with latest package from Gutsy. thanks.