evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in pvl_head() when adding new task

Bug #458258 reported by Steve McGrath
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution crashes whenever I attempt to add a task via the "Click to add a task" entry bar over the task list. The task does get added and shows up in the list after restarting evolution.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Oct 22 10:22:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: evolution --component=mail
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x9b4797 <pvl_head+7>: mov 0x4(%eax),%eax
 PC (0x009b4797) ok
 source "0x4(%eax)" (0x00000004) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evolution
StacktraceTop:
 pvl_head () from /usr/lib/libical.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 e_table_model_append_row ()
Title: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in pvl_head()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Steve McGrath (smcgrath23) wrote :
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Steve McGrath (smcgrath23) wrote :

I forgot to mention that when this happens I get the following message in my dmesg:

evolution[19043]: segfault at 4 ip 005f6797 sp bff6ac3c error 4 in libical.so.0.43.0[5ba000+4f000]

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:pvl_head (L=0x8795da8) at /build/buildd/libical-0.43/src/libical/pvl.c:542
e_cal_model_component_finalize (object=0x8795da8)
g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
ecm_append_row (etm=0x8332cc0, source=0x85d0f18, row=0)
e_table_model_append_row (e_table_model=0x8332cc0,

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
visibility: private → public
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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