Bug 73937 – Evolution and addressbook: it does not work at all

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fernando Sanabria 2004-12-09 12:50:48 UTC]

Evolution 2.0.2:

The addressbook does not work at all and if you try to create a new addressbook you get a segmentation fault.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Evolution
2. Try to use the address book (create a mail and try to add contacts from the addresbook)
3.

Actual Results:  
You dont see your contacts in the address book.   Auto complete of the contacs
does not work neither (when creating a new mail)

Expected Results:  
To have a working addressbook.

[Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2004-12-09 18:09:40 UTC]

Please provide

emerge info
output if run from the console
a backtrace

[Comment 2 Fernando Sanabria 2004-12-10 05:55:52 UTC]

emerge info:



fernando@linx4 fernando $ emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.2.5-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.25-gentoo-r3 i686)
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System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.18,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres pwdb python qt quicktime readline samba scanner slang spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

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console output (nothing much):

fernando@linx4 fernando $ evolution
fernando@linx4 fernando $

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backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 26384)]
0x41468bbd in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x41468bbd in ?? ()
#1  0x083051a8 in ?? ()
(gdb) q
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y


I guess the program is not compiled with debugging information, how can I do that?

[Comment 3 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-12-20 08:22:07 UTC]

if you add "-g"  to your CFLAGS and FEATURES="nostrip" and recompile evolution and any of the dependencies until you get some debugging symbols

[Comment 4 Vytautas Liuolia 2005-01-07 00:50:21 UTC]

I also had noticed that. I think it might be related with buggy import from evo 1.4.*

[Comment 5 Rafael do N. Pereira 2005-02-13 07:59:54 UTC]

I have the same problem on evolution 2.0.3, but it does not crash, it goes on working, but as i you too, i cannot access none of my hundreds of contacts.

[Comment 6 Rafael do N. Pereira 2005-02-13 08:02:38 UTC]

adding some information, the output i have is(2.0.3):

(evolution:17204): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_construct: Could not obtain a handle to the Personal Addressbook Server with IID `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_BookFactory:1.0'

(evolution:17204): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed


(evolution:17204): libebook-CRITICAL **: e_book_async_open: assertion `book && E_IS_BOOK (book)' failed

[Comment 7 Spider (RETIRED) 2005-02-14 01:10:04 UTC]

Here's one way I managed to reproduce this:

parts of evolution builds against gnutls, and if you update gnutls, evolution breaks until you do a revdep-rebuild or re-emerge evolution.

Theese parts include the Contacts disappearing, and the calendars/tasks disappear completely from the UI.

[Comment 8 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2005-04-18 22:41:09 UTC]

Does Spider's suggestion help you guys? Reopen if the problem persists.