RE: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when attempting to saveattachment

["Romain" <mr-smoke spinning-plates eu org>]

Uh,

Any *constructive* comments on that one ?
gdb sure isn't the cause for evolution crash ...

Thanks,

Romain

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Stedfast [mailto:fejj ximian com]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 8:34 PM
> To: Romain
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when attempting to
> saveattachment
>
>
> *shrug*
>
> Sounds like your gdb is broken or something.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:19, Romain wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Once again, I tried debugging again and again. I never could. 
> After having
> > waited for like 2 minutes for gdb to output the bt for the 
> thread, I have to
> > killev in order to regain control of my computer.
> > However, here's what I could get from it :
> >
> > 1 : gdb evolution -> run -> [crashing evo] -> Program received signal
> > SIGINT, Interrupt.
> > 0x40ec4c74 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > thread apply all bt :
> > Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 32444)):
> > #0 0x40ec4c74 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #1 0x40dcd734 in g_source_remove_by_funcs_user_data () from
> > /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> > Cannot access memory at address 0xf
> >
> > (ie exactly the same as last time)
> >
> > Doing this and not killing evo (killev) quick enough resulted 
> in a global
> > freeze of the system, for about 5 minutes. The bg tasks seem to 
> be running
> > quite well though, for proof this mail is being sent from a 
> MASQ'ed windows
> > host ...
> >
> > 2 : gdb evolution-mail -> run -> [runing then trying to 
> crashing evo] unable
> > to crash ...
> > (meaning it works fine eh)
> >
> > ?!?!
> >
> > I'm all ears,
> >
> > Regards,
> > Romain
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeffrey Stedfast [mailto:fejj ximian com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:12 AM
> > > To: Romain
> > > Subject: RE: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when attempting to
> > > saveattachment
> > >
> > >
> > > can you type:
> > >
> > > "thread apply all bt"
> > >
> > > at the gdb prompt and post what it says?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 19:22, Romain wrote:
> > > > Hi Jeff,
> > > >
> > > > I'm baffled ...
> > > > I opened a shell for my regular user, launched "gdb
> > > evolution-mail", ran it,
> > > > then ran evolution ...
> > > > and I was unable to reproduce the crash !?!
> > > >
> > > > Then I ran "gdb evolution" and run, and was able to do it again :
> > > > Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 5669)):
> > > > #0 0x40ec3c74 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > > > #1 0x40dcc734 in g_source_remove_by_funcs_user_data () from
> > > > /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
> > > > Cannot access memory at address 0xf
> > > >
> > > > And the program is still crashed, it's taking me hours to
> > > launch killev...
> > > > I've waited like 5 whole minutes...
> > > > To answer previous posts, it shouldn't have anything to do with
> > > IMAP/mbox
> > > > since every attachment causes the problem, either retrieved
> > > from POP mail,
> > > > from local mail, or from data converted from Mozilla.
> > > > And I don't think it has anything to do with DNS since
> > > everythign else is
> > > > working fine (I've had problems with sendmail & DNS in the
> > > past, that's when
> > > > I fixed it ...)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any lights,
> > > > Romain
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Jeffrey Stedfast [mailto:fejj ximian com]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:05 PM
> > > > > To: Romain
> > > > > Cc: evolution ximian com
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when attempting to
> > > > > saveattachment
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you get a backtrace of the crash/hang in the
> > > evolution-mail process?
> > > > > There are instructions somewhere on 
http://support.ximian.com, just
> > > > search for "backtrace" in the knowledgebase.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > > > Jeffrey Stedfast
> > > > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> > > > fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com
> > --
> > Jeffrey Stedfast
> > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> > fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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