RE: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when attempting to saveattachment

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

Ok, sorry, looks like I could not make myself clear...

The PC freezes with or without gdb, it's when I click the Save to Disk
button in the attachment context menu in evolution that the PC freezes,
regardless of whether i'm running gdb or no.
I've also tried running gdb as root and attach to a running process, then
continue and so on but no luck...
What seems to be happening is that, since Evolution's lock is damn quick, I
cannot reach to gdb in time.
I'll try to let the process end by itself (might take a while)... Should I
gdb from root anyways ?

Thanks for your time,

Romain

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Stedfast [mailto:fejj ximian com]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:02 PM
> To: Romain
> Cc: evolution ximian com
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when attempting to
> saveattachment
>
>
> I know that gdb isn't causing Evolution to crash, but if gdb is locking
> up your machine and/or not giving you a trace of all threads, then I
> would consider that a bug in gdb.
>
> Anyways, since it seems your gdb is buggy, I'm not sure you can actually
> *get* a useful trace without which, I can't fix the bug (unless you can
> tell me exactly how to reproduce it on my box).
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:33, Romain wrote:
> > 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
> > --
> > Jeffrey Stedfast
> > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
> > fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com
> --
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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