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Evolution crashes when search term is entered in search box and ENTER is pressed

Asked by Scott Carter

I'm running 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, a fresh install. I ran 8.10 on another computer, didn't notice this problem. I upgraded that system to 9.04 and this crashing behavior started. When 9.10 came out, I upgraded that system again, and the crashing continued. As I said, my current system is a fresh 9.04 install, dual-booting Windows (no WUBI here).

Usually happens on the first search only. After crash, if I restart Evolution and perform the same search, it won't crash. I can perform multiple searches without any apparent problem. If I start Evolution from the command line, this appears in the terminal:

** (evolution:29220): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s
** (evolution:29220): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
** (evolution:29220): DEBUG: EI: SHELL STARTUP

(evolution:29220): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_object_is: assertion `o != NULL' failed

(evolution:29220): evolution-mail-CRITICAL **: mail_tools_folder_to_url: assertion `CAMEL_IS_FOLDER (folder)' failed
** (evolution:29220): DEBUG: EI: mail_read_notify
** (evolution:29220): DEBUG: MAIL SERVER: Count changed: 0

When I perform the search, the terminal only reports one line:

Segmentation fault

I'm not sure how to make it crash again - unless I reboot. If anybody has ideas, or needs information to figure this out, please let me know.

Thanks

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

For example the exact term of SIGSEGV is useful to search bug reports.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingEvolution
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Strace

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Scott Carter (rmdbd001) said : 		#2

I finally was able to create a backtrace while Evolution crashed. However, I don't see how to attach the resulting text file to this bug report. It's 600+ lines, so pasting it in here didn't seem prudent.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#3

If you get a stack-trace then attach to a bug report :) that might
help out the devs.

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Scott Carter
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Question #97257 on evolution in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/97257
>
>    Status: Answered => Open
>
> Scott Carter is still having a problem:
> I finally was able to create a backtrace while Evolution crashed.
> However, I don't see how to attach the resulting text file to this bug
> report.  It's 600+ lines, so pasting it in here didn't seem prudent.
>
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Scott Carter (rmdbd001) said : 		#4

I don't see how to attach the gdm trace file anywhere.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

Thanks for your effort.
This here is the 'answers' section, so please attach files to your bug report.
Please read:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
or view the screencast:
http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/2009/09/16/Reporting_Bugs

At the bottom of each bug report page you can find:
 + Add attachment or patch

and this is the place to upload files.

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Scott Carter (rmdbd001) said : 		#6

Thanks for the direction, Sam. I created a bug # 511004 for this. In the process of doing so, I found bug 476534, which may be the same or related. Hopefully this will help everyone.