random crashes are happening alot for evolution On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Jeff Lane <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > -- > Evolution crashes (but leaves no core dump and does not trigger apport) > randomly > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675731 > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to > evolution in ubuntu. > > Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: evolution > > Another bit of Evolution fun... > > I've noticed that since upgrading to 10.10, Evolution crashes randomly. > Some times it's opening a folder, sometimes when clicking on Send on a new > message, sometimes when marking a message as read. > > In the latter example, I saw today, Evolution would crash EVERY time I > clicked the Read/Unread icon next to a message in one of my folders. > > I finally thought I'd try running strace and seeing if I could capture the > system calls made at the time of the crash, however, when run through > systrace, the crash did NOT occur, even though without strace, the crash > occurred 5 out of 5 times when attempting to mark that message unread. > > So at a first guess, I am thinking that maybe there's some sort of race > condition going on that strace is mitigating. > > I also attempted this before when evolution kept crashing while clicking > Send on new messages (still does this too) and so I ran evolution for > several hours through strace and never managed to get a crash. I DID, > however, end up with a 40GB log file from strace :( > > I will look at running evolution through valgrind too and see if I can > catch anything, but I'm not hopeful that this will be any different than > when running via strace. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 > Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu7 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4 > Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Mon Nov 15 15:18:44 2010 > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_US.utf8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: evolution > > > -- Evolution crashes (but leaves no core dump and does not trigger apport) randomly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evolution in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
