Re: [Evolution] Segfault in evolution recently

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 11:23 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 15:33 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First, the pastebin when this occurs:- http://pastebin.com/rkRk9s0L
> >
> > Basically, during usage (seems to happen mainly when switching to other
> > folders to read/write) evolution segfaults. Sometimes output to terminal
> > is as above, sometimes there's no output except notification of a
> > segfault.
> >
> > I'm using Arch Linux 64-bit, Evolution 2.32.2, accessing two imapx
> > servers running locally on dovecot (populated and synced by
> > offlineimap). I have the evolution-mapi and external-editor plugins
> > installed as well (though I don't use the former currently).
> >
> > Advise please. I cannot trigger this reliably, sometimes it runs for 10
> > minutes just fine, other times it just crashes the first time I switch a
> > folder or read a message.
>
>       Hi,
> make sure you've installed debug info packages for evolution-data-server
> and evolution, and then try to reproduce this under valgrind, which will
> be pretty slow, but it may show what happened to the memory and where.
> You can get a valgrind log with this command:
>    $ G_SLICE=always-malloc valgrind --num-callers=50 evolution &>log.txt
> and when it's finished then the log.txt file may contain the
> information. Note that valgrind can sometimes prevent crash and report
> issue to the console/log only.
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Debug info packages are simply non-stripped, right? And I tried to run
with valgrind but I could not replicate the problem after about 15
minutes trying. Tomorrow in the office I will try again.