Bug 371401

Summary: mail-notification crashes on first startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik>
Component: mail-notificationAssignee: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2007-11-08 16:17:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
mail-notification crashes on first startup after login. Subsequent startups work
fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q mail-notification
mail-notification-4.1-1.fc7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure mail-notification to be started automatically
2. reboot
3. login

  
Actual results:
mail-notification crashes

Expected results:
It should start without crashing.

Additional info:
gdb trace collected by bug-buddy attached
Comment 1 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2007-11-08 16:17:40 UTC 
Created attachment 251731 [details]
gdb trace of the crash
Comment 2 Thorsten Leemhuis 2007-11-08 19:25:59 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
[...]
> 1. configure mail-notification to be started automatically
[...]

What do you mean by this? mail-notification starts by default everytime if it's
installed (which might be a bug, but that's another story); maybe you started
two instances in parallel which then lead to the error?
Comment 3 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2007-11-08 21:32:38 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> [...]
> > 1. configure mail-notification to be started automatically
> [...]
> 
> What do you mean by this? mail-notification starts by default everytime if
> it's installed (which might be a bug, but that's another story); maybe you
> started two instances in parallel which then lead to the error? 

I wasn't aware. I thought if it's not configured (no mail accounts set), then it
doesn't run. Or something like that. Anyway, no, I'm not running two instances.
Comment 4 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2007-11-08 22:22:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (In reply to comment #0)
> > [...]
> > > 1. configure mail-notification to be started automatically
> > [...]
> > 
> > What do you mean by this? mail-notification starts by default everytime if
> > it's installed (which might be a bug, but that's another story); maybe you
> > started two instances in parallel which then lead to the error? 
> 
> I wasn't aware. I thought if it's not configured (no mail accounts set),
> then it doesn't run. Or something like that. Anyway, no, I'm not running
> two instances.

Apparently I lied, sorry. I went back to System->Preferences->Personal->Sessions
and found two Mail Notifications there, one under "No Name". Removing one of
them solves the crash (when it crashed, both of them were dying). But still, it
shouldn't crash. Mind you, this home directory was used all the way back to
FC-3, so it might have accumulated some cruft in gnome settings.
Comment 5 Thorsten Leemhuis 2007-11-25 13:07:09 UTC 
well, it's a corner case and one that is unlikely to be Fedora specific. I'd
forward this upstream -- but is that worth the trouble?
Comment 6 Thorsten Leemhuis 2007-12-31 16:35:48 UTC 
Closing this; it looks like a (non-Fedora-specific) corner-case