Re: [Evolution] Opening Evolution contact in address book freezes Evolution, Gnome

[Arthur Machlas <arthur machlas gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 11:12 -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> > Program received signal SIGSEV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x00007fffef0bf001 in g_type_check_instance_cast ()
> > Âfrom /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>
> Needs complete output (thread apply all bt), plus please install debug
> packages for glib2, gtk+2 and evolution.
>
> andre

Thanks adre,

installed the dbg packages you referenced, though still got a message saying:
## Begin quote
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/evolution...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/evolution...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
## End quote

First time I tried to get the backtrace things had frozen too badly,
couldn't activate the terminal, had to kill from VT1 again. Second
time I managed it by being a bit quicker switching to the terminal.
Here's what was spit out from running BT after the freeze
## Begin BT output
Starting program: /usr/bin/evolution
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fffe0c1d710 (LWP 4889)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdbfff710 (LWP 4890)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd962a710 (LWP 4891)]
[Thread 0x7fffd962a710 (LWP 4891) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffd962a710 (LWP 4892)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd85c3710 (LWP 4893)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd7dc2710 (LWP 4894)]
[Thread 0x7fffd85c3710 (LWP 4893) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffd962a710 (LWP 4892) exited]
bt
[Thread 0x7fffd7dc2710 (LWP 4894) exited]
^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x00007fffee50b113 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007fffee50b113 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007fffebc908ca in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#2  0x00007fffebc92c0c in xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#3  0x00007fffec705613 in _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#4  0x00007fffec6f2e10 in XQueryPointer () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#5  0x00007ffff0c8dc82 in gdk_window_x11_get_pointer (window=0x10488d0,
    x=0x7fffffffe46c, y=0x7fffffffe468, mask=0x7fffffffe464)
    at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c:3153
#6  0x00007ffff0c3efb0 in gdk_window_real_window_get_pointer (
    display=<value optimized out>, window=0x10488d0, x=0x7fffffffe4ac,
    y=0x7fffffffe4a8, mask=0x7fffffffe4a4)
    at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/gdkdisplay.c:548
#7  0x00007ffff0c5cfff in IA__gdk_window_get_pointer (window=0x10488d0,
    x=0x7fffffffe4fc, y=0x7fffffffe4f8, mask=0x0)
    at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/gdkwindow.c:6272
#8  0x00007ffff0c929ce in IA__gdk_device_get_state (device=0x63b010,
    window=0x10488d0, axes=<value optimized out>, mask=0x0)
    at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/x11/gdkinput-x11.c:886
#9  0x00007ffff0c43d5b in IA__gdk_event_request_motions (event=0x1272070)
    at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/gdkevents.c:954
#10 0x00007ffff10e0d90 in _gtk_tooltip_handle_event (event=0x1272070)
    at /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtktooltip.c:1328
#11 0x00007ffff1006258 in IA__gtk_main_do_event (event=0x1272070)
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
## END BT output

I am reliably reproducing the error now, but exiting the program after
a succesfuly run in address book, (ie., when the address book is open
quit evolution) upon restarting the freeze occurs. It is not
recoverable except by killing the app from a VT.

Lot of gtk errors, so on a whim I'm going to switch engines to the
standard clearlooks. Running nodoko right now, and experienced crashed
previously by using the equinox theme engine. Not available on my
standard Debian Squeeze inst.

I'm running evolution Version: 2.30.3-5 on Debian Squeeze. Should
probably file a bug with my distro but I'll wait to hear what you
think about this and try switchign engines.

Regards,
AM