I have evolution-connector-2.10.0-1.fc7. I have evolution configured to use two accounts, one Exchange and one IMAP. I was composing a message from my IMAP account, entered and autocompleted a recipient from my personal address book, and then right clicked on that recipient and selected Edit. Evolution-exchange-storage coredumped. There is a contact in my Exchange contacts with the same email address; I imagine this is probably relevant. See attached bug buddy report.
Created attachment 152733 [details] bug buddy report
I have the same problem. I have an Exchange account and a POP account and sometimes (it's not that hard to reproduce) evolution-exchange-storage crashes while I'm trying to fill the fields "To:" or "Cc:" and there is data being filtered on the fly. I'm not really sure but I guess this only happens with the Exchange account because it doesn't happen with POP (I don't use POP a lot though). The annoying thing about this crash is that sometimes it happens while the the dropdown list is open showing the possible matches and hence the mouse focus is locked and there is no easy way to get it back. I have to switch to a virtual terminal using ctrl+atl+f1, log in and kill the evolution process. This is not really usable for an average user. I haven't reported this upstream because this particular bug is affecting me since Fedora Core 6 and no other distro (I have tested Ubuntu and Mandriva for a while and they are not affected). So this annoying bug seems specific to Fedora and is an old one. Fortunately, I decided to install debuginfo packages last night... and guess what?? today in the morning I got a crash again trying to compose a mail. The debuginfo enabled packages are the following: kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 glibc-debuginfo-common-2.6-3 glibc-debuginfo-2.6-3 gtk2-debuginfo-2.10.13-1.fc7 evolution-data-server-debuginfo-1.10.2-3.fc7 evolution-debuginfo-2.10.2-2.fc7 evolution-connector-debuginfo-2.10.2-2.fc7 evolution-webcal-debuginfo-2.10.0-1.fc7 I'll attach the bug report generated by bugbuddy later on. Cheers.
Created attachment 158132 [details] bug report generated by bugbuddy I hope this helps to solve the problem. If you need another debuginfo package installed, please let me know.
The stacktraces show two different crash points. The first is from passing a NULL pointer to strlen() from within some GIOChannel function. The rest of the stacktrace is Bonobo vomit. The second stacktrace shows an invocation of a NULL function pointer in ldap_op_finished(). I think I've seen this one before and may have even fixed it somewhere. Thanks for the stacktraces; this helps a lot.
Created attachment 214571 [details] Error handling patch For Jonathan's stacktrace, it looks like something caused a GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_OtherError while fetching a contact, which then caused Evolution-Data-Server's "error handling" to fall over and crash. This patch should fix the error handling part by making sure we don't pass a NULL string through Bonobo. More information is required to determine what caused the original error in the first place.
William's stacktrace looks very similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354442 These are two different bugs.
There's an upstream bug that addresses the root cause of Jonathan's crash [1]. Both upstream bugs are marked FIXED so I'm closing this as well. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464639