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On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:08 -0800, walt wrote: |
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> On 01/11/2010 03:11 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I've done some updates around Jan 4 - 8 which has borken evolution - it |
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> > segfaults when retrieving imap mail. I had a look at the trace and |
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> > started recompiling (note - same versions) some random libs (libbonobo, |
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> > dbus-glib, gtkhtml, etc.) and then I couldn't log in or start firefox. |
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> > hm. |
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> > I've recompiled further and got back to square one (there were dbus |
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> > breakages for some reason) - evolution segfaults... |
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> With multiple breakages and the sand apparently shifting beneath your |
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> feet, I'd be wondering about filesystem corruption. I've been through |
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> the same updates (x86 and ~amd64) and evolution is working perfectly. |
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> Have you fsck'd your filesystems recently? |
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yes, in fact I have fck'd my filesystem :) I recovered most of it |
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though from backups and fsck.ext3. |
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I ended up moving the ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<account>/ folder out of |
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the way and restarting evo. It seemed to fix the problems! |
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Having a look at the source code there are lots of macros duplicated in |
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evolution, and lots of system calls that don't check NULL pointers |
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first... I wonder if they know about pc-lint! |
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anyway I made a bug report and some patches so we'll see. |
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thanks, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a data |
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encryption standard and they came up with ... |
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Student: EBCDIC!" |
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