Bug 844120

Summary: Evolution using EWS crashes when password is changed in seahorse
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bojan Smojver <bojan>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: lucilanga, mbarnes, mcrha
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Description Bojan Smojver 2012-07-29 05:03:32 UTC
Description of problem:
Most Exchange sites enforce periodic password change. If on such a password change one changes the stored password using seahorse while Evo is running (and while still being connected to Exchange over EWS) and after Evo reported that the password is wrong on mail refresh, Evo may crash.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-3.4.3-2.fc17.i686

How reproducible:
Once thus far.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change AD password, while connected to Exchange using EWS.
2. Change stored password using seahorse after Evo reports incorrect password on mail refresh.
3. Evo crashes after a while.
  
Actual results:
Evo crashes.

Expected results:
Should pick up the new password and continue.

Additional info:
Exchange server was also behaving a bit odd at the time. The crash may have been a result of some other back end failure. Unfortunaly, abrt did not catch anything.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2012-07-30 09:07:05 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. I'm afraid without backtrace it'll be hard to find the right cause. I suggest to try a test package [1] which contains quite many fixes which will be part of evolution-ews-3.4.4, and I recall some similar crash being addressed there as well. The tests of the package show that this is less crashing than before.

If you want to get a backtrace without using ABRT, then you can run evolution under gdb (please install debuginfo packages for evolution-data-server, evolution and evolution-ews first, and make sure they will be of the same version as binary packages), and get a backrace. You can do it with command like this:
   $ gdb evolution --ex r --ex "t a a bt" --ex q

Please let me know whether the test package helped. Thanks in advance.

[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4335132

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