[Evolution] Re: evolution-data-server crashing

[John Stile <john stilen com>]

John Stile wrote:

> I've had terrible problems since upgrading to gentoo's:
>  evolution-exchange-1.4.0
>  evolution-2.4.1
>  evolution-data-server-2.4.1
> Downgrading isn't fixing the problem.
> Shortly after starting evolution, I get the error:
> ------------------------------------------
>  The Application "evolution-exchange-storage" has quit unexpectedly.
>  You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.
>  Or you can restart the application right now.
> -------------------------------------------
> The application tries to restart and fails.
> I tried to get debug info, but the file is basically worthless.
> The strace was worthless as well.
> ------------------------------------------
> I couldn't find a good how to on cleaning out all traces of evolution 
> from my home directory.
> Does a tool or document exist? That would help to rule-out and backup 
> my old configs.
> ------------------------------------------
> The exchange server fails to authenticate most of the time, but not 
> always.  It seems that right after creating the initial account, it 
> works for mail, but not the calender and address book.
> ------------------------------------------
> I would love some feed back on this.

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I've done a little research on reporting bugs and hopefully this info 
will be helpful to
develpers.
#
# Reinstall evolution with debug symbols.
#
root genx ~ $ FEATURES="nostrip"   emerge   evolution evolution-exchange 
evolution-data-server    

#
# Verify installed verisons:
#
genx jstile # equery list evolution

  [ Searching for package 'evolution' in all categories among: ]
   * installed packages
  [I--] [  ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.4.1 (0)
  [I--] [  ] gnome-extra/evolution-exchange-2.4.1 (2.0)
  [I--] [  ] mail-client/evolution-2.4.1 (2.0)

#
# Check that all dependency libraries have been met
#
root genx ~ $ revdep-rebuild -X

    Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

    Checking reverse dependencies...

    Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
    will be emerged.

    Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
      (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

    Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
      (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

    Checking dynamic linking consistency...
     done.
      (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

    Assigning files to packages...
     done.
      (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_packages_raw, 
/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_package_owners)

    Cleaning list of packages to rebuild... done.
      (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_packages)

    Assigning packages to ebuilds... Nothing to rebuild

    Evaluating package order... done.
      (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

    Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

#
# Get profile info for this system.
#
root genx ~ $ emerge --info

 Portage 2.0.53_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, 
glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686)
 =================================================================
 System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 
1.70GHz
 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9
 dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
 sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
 sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
 sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
 sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
 sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
 virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
 CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
 CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i386 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer"
 CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env 
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config 
/var/qmail/control"
 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo 
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
 CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i386 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer"
 DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
 FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ 
http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ 
http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo 
http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/";
 LINGUAS="en"
 PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
 PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
 SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
 USE="x86 X acl alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo 
cdr cjkcodecs commons-codec crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss 
encode esd evolution fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm 
gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconvcodec imagemagick imlib ipv6 jasper java jpeg 
kde kde-meta kdexdeltas kerberos krb5 ldap libdv libg++ libtheora libwww 
mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc mysql ncurses nls ogg 
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime 
readline ruby samba scanner sdk sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex 
tiff truetype truetype-fonts turetype type1-fonts udev vorbis 
win32codecs ximian-connector xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib 
video_cards_radeon linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
 Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

#
# Start evolution in gdb
#
jstile genx ~ $ gdb --args  evolution
GNU gdb 6.3
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) start
Breakpoint 1 at 0x805d489: file main.c, line 492.
Starting program: /usr/bin/evolution
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 16666)]
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 16666)]
main (argc=442051508, argv=0xbf8d2434) at main.c:492
492     main.c: No such file or directory.
       in main.c
(gdb) continue
Continuing.
adding hook target 'source'
[New Thread 32769 (LWP 16683)]
[New Thread 16386 (LWP 16684)]
[New Thread 32771 (LWP 16685)]
[New Thread 49156 (LWP 16686)]
[New Thread 65541 (LWP 16687)]
[New Thread 81926 (LWP 16688)]
[New Thread 98311 (LWP 16689)]
[New Thread 114696 (LWP 16690)]
[Thread 114696 (LWP 16690) exited]

(evolution:16666): e-canvas-background.c-CRITICAL **: ecb_style_set: 
assertion `ecb->priv->gc != NULL' failed
[New Thread 131080 (LWP 16718)]

camel-imap-provider-ERROR **: file camel-imap-command.c: line 180 
(imap_command_start): assertion failed: (store->ostream)
aborting...

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 49156 (LWP 16686)]
0x40d76691 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)

(gdb) bt
#0  0x40d76691 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x40d032f1 in pthread_kill () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x40d036cb in raise () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3  0x40d76418 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x40d778d0 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x40ca4b1d in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0xffff037f in ?? ()