Re: [gentoo-desktop] More questions re. evolution

[Lindsay Haisley]

Thus spake Owen Ford on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:14:04PM CDT
> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 19:51 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > What should I re-emerge in order to try to get evolution to be stable.  So
> > far, I've re-emerged:
> >
> > evolution
> > evoluiton-data-server
> > glibc
> > gtk+
> > bonobo
> > libbonobo
> >
> > I've also nuked all my evolution config and started over - which will
> > involve _hours_ of work to rebuild everything with hex-reader from the saved
> > config files.
> >
> > Nothing works.  I HAVE to get this program working or I'm f***ed!
> >
> > Evolution even crashes with "*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer:
> > 0x08435618 ***" when I'm scrolling on a window, such as the contact
> > information window!
> >
> > This is worse than having a hard drive crash :-(
>
> You could strace and see what it is trying to do around that time.  I've
> done this more than a few times when an app starts acting weird.

Not a lot of help.

gettimeofday({1147754455, 767633}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1147754455, 768000}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}], 7, 0) = 0
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
gettimeofday({1147754455, 768234}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20, events=POLLIN}], 7, 240875) = 1
ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [32])                = 0
read(3, "\6\1&S\250\255z\0{\0\0\0\335\f\200\3\0\0\0\0r\4\305\2\4"..., 32) = 32
gettimeofday({1147754455, 775118}, NULL) = 0
write(3, "&\20\2\0\335\f\200\3", 8)     = 8
read(3, "\1\1\'S\0\0\0\0{\0\0\0\0\0\0\0r\4\305\2\4\0\202\0\0\1\0"..., 32) = 32
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
write(3, "5\20\4\0\24200\3\205\n\200\3\20\0006\1\33\4\2\0\0\0\0"..., 24) = 24
write(3, " \20\2\0\0\0\0\0", 8)         = 8
write(3, "+\20\1\0", 4)                 = 4
read(3, "\1\2+S\0\0\0\0T\0\200\3\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\30cN\10"..., 32) = 32
fork()                                  = 16668


stderr and stdio get all mixed up here, I believe.


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