Evolution crashes when copying an appointment

[Tim Besard]

Binary package hint: evolution

When I open my calendar in Evolution, and copy an existing appointment to the same or another calendar, evolution crashes.

Running a fully updated Hary Heron, with kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
Evolution details: evolution & evolution-common are 2.22.1-0ubuntu2; evolution-data-server & evolution-data-server-common are 2.22.1-0ubuntu1

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Gzipped strace log

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Gzipped console output

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Sadly, there is no .crash file created. That's why I have provided you with as much information as I could gather.

After having crashed Evolution:
tim@desktop:/var/crash$ ls -la
totaal 0
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 72 2008-04-17 17:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2008-03-05 22:18 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-04-16 12:02 .lock

I hope the strace log provides you with enough information, if not please explain what information I could send more.

[Dave W. (dave.w)]

Hello. I just wanted to chime in that I am experiencing the same bug. I did not have this issue under Gutsy... only after I did the upgrade to Hardy.

I can also confirm that no crash report appears to be created in /var/crash. This bug is a real pain for me, so if I can be of help in gathering any other troubleshooting information to help resolve it, please email me.

Thanks.
Dave

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you need to enable apport in /etc/defaults/apport, it's not running on stable to not get in the users way

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

No .crash file is generated, with apport enabled manually.

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Proof, as people tend not to believe without evidence.
FYI, rebooting and completely reloading the kernel does give the same results.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try to get a valgrind log for the crash (you can follow the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind)? You should also open an apport bug if it's not working

[Tim Besard (maleadt)]

Here you are. Evolution continues to work under Valgrind when reproducing the crash.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is similar to bug #220608 which has debug log