evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in e_flag_set()

[Ted Gould]

Binary package hint: evolution

While starting Evolution and it was refreshing my folders it crashed. I was switching messages at the time that it crashed. Backtrace attached.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 pthread_mutex_lock ()
 e_flag_set (flag=0x8ef15f8) at e-flag.c:83
 try_open_e_book_cb (book=0x994c740, status=E_BOOK_ERROR_OK,
 emit_async_open_response (data=0x98e70e0) at e-book.c:2762
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in pthread_mutex_lock()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev pulse pulse-access pulse-rt scanner video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
e_flag_set (flag=0x8ef15f8) at e-flag.c:83
try_open_e_book_cb (book=0x994c740, status=E_BOOK_ERROR_OK, closure=0xb3202108)
emit_async_open_response (data=0x98e70e0) at e-book.c:2762
g_idle_dispatch (source=0x98e07f8, callback=0x1c5e, user_data=0x98e70e0)

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

As I explained on bug 287423, I can reproduce this backtrace by opening the Preferences dialog. And it happens nearly all the time I open it, making this a rather painful bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try getting a valgrind log?

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

strace log

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

And here's the only logfile generated by valgrind.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The crash is due to the change on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364542

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557613

[John Leach (johnleach)]

I can reproduce this easily just by clicking back and forth between folders.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

The latest patch on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557613 seems to fix it for me. People who are familiar with building .deb packages may want to give it a try too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.24.1-0ubuntu2

---------------
evolution (2.24.1-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_upstream_fix_crasher.patch:
    - upstream change to fix a crasher, wait for the eflag to be set before
      continuing so the callback function works correctly (lp: #287136)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:44:03 +0100

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

re opening this is still an issue (bug 346297), upstream bug was re opened too.

[Dim Zoom (dimzoom)]

still present in jaunty beta up to date thanks :)

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We got a new duplicate for karmic: bug #469560.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Bug has been fixed upstream for 2.28.2 with [1] and for 2.29.2 with [2].

[1]: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-28&id=2e374c1dd51272e9eeeb4b233f777f60540968dd
[2]: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evolution/commit/?id=da16135f08ff62fde4b8c20a043d17b6a4997205

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.28.2-1ubuntu1

---------------
evolution (2.28.2-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Resync on Debian
  * New upstream version:
    Bug Fixes:
    - #271836 - Incorrect signature for "model_cell_changed" signal handler
    - #397265 - Image loading for new contact requires restarting Evolution
    - #411768 - Drag and drop header columns (lp: #344373)
    - #468736 - Prevent recursion in em-format
    - #474502 - Don't check for contacts in broken address books
    - #551464 - Paste files into composer as attachments
    - #551603 - Special case "positive zero alarms"
    - #554779 - Removal of task due date does not sync from Palm
    - #555901 - Preserve Start/End/Due timezone when editing in list view
    - #557613 - evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in try_open_e_book_cb
                (lp: #287136)
    - #570835 - Custom e-mail headers inserted with double column
    - #590127 - Define ETable::vertical-spacing style property
    - #596027 - In Anjal, although invalid mail address warning popup, mail's
                tab closed automatically
    - #596566 - Crash on quit with composer window opened (lp: #438382)
    - #596827 - Don't remove meeting attendees after edit
    - #597582 - Original Date: header should be given precedence
    - #599124 - Signature always includes an empty line in front of text
                (lp: #456220)
    - #599190 - Drag and drop broken for received MIME parts (lp: #456690)
    - #599245 - Use bitwise AND instead of logical AND for checking flags
    - #599627 - Crash when adding a new task in a table
    - #599792 - Anjal composer's Send button doesn't work after pressed Save
                Drafts button
    - #599882 - Crash in em_folder_tree_select_prev_path() when wrapping to
                bottom
    - #600132 - Direct print from composer fails when special characters used
    - #600133 - Crash on day view print preview without all day events
                (lp: #464197)
    - #601202 - Evo deletes system addressbook
    - #601218 - Accepted meeting doesn't show attachments in calendar view
    - #601219 - Transient dialogs in composer window blocks main window
    - #601644 - Disable rename for system folders
    Other Changes:
    Synchronize with attachment logic in Evolution 2.29.
    Improve comments: widgets/misc/e-filter-bar.c
    [PATCH] Output an error message on system filter rules loading error
    Use same macro name for consistency
    Add mail_component_show_status_bar
    Explicitly dllimport/export comp_editor_registry on Windows
    Support other forward types for Anjal.
    Sync to disk the outbox, since if we crash, we endup sending mail again.
    Add support for Googlemail and hotmail/live/msn.com accounts.
    Translations
  * debian/control:
    - Build-Depends on liblpint-bonobo-dev for the lpi patch
    - conflicts, replaces, provides the previous documentation binaries
    - don't Build-Depends on libgnomeprint2.2-dev, libgnomeprintui2.2-dev
    - don't build depends on pilot-link it's not required
    - don't split documentation since it goes to langpacks
    - don't use po-debconf there either
    - evolution replaces evoluti...