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Description of problem: After having installed and configured the Evolution-exchange plugin, Evolution crashes and subsequent login attempts to the Gnome desktop fails with this sad face and a Log out button. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Currently the package has version 3.1.91-1.fc16(i686) How reproducible: 100% of the subsequent logins fails. The only way to login is to create a new user from Root terminal, delete the old user including files, re-create the user and then log in. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the Evolution-exchange-3.1.91-1.fc16(i686) plugin 2. Set up an OWA account in Evolution (previously account may, but need not be set up) 3. After finishing the setup of the plugin/Evolution, Evolution crashes and finally the Gnome session ends with a sad face. Actual results: Gnome session failed. Log out the only possibility. Expected results: Having access to OWA in Evolution. Additional info: If I am not thrown out of Gnome at once, I can see that my OWA mails are properly populated in Evolution. So the connector itself seems to work,
Thanks for a bug report. Could you provide a backtrace of the crash, with debug info packages, installed, please? If it's in evolution, then debug info packages for gtkhtml3, evolution-data-server, evolution and evolution-exchange would be enough. I'm wondering whether this has anything to do with glib2 rebuilds of evolution-data-server and evolution, which had been done just after 3.1.91 release. I'm also working on an update to 3.1.92 right now, it may reach updates-testing in a day, approximately.
Hi I would like to do so - if I knew how. I mean - I may be able to install the packages You suggest, but how can I get anything from my users profile since Gnome throws me out so fast? Let me know how to help and remember - I am not a developer. :) BR Tom
First try uninstalling evolution-exchange and see if you can log in again.
Hi Thanks for the hint! I should have thought of this myself :) But even after uninstalling the evolution-exchange package I am thrown out from Gnome. Should I maybe try uninstalling Evolution or does this not make any sense? Cheers
There is only one process from evolution which is run on a session start, it's the evolution-alarm-notify process, which is run due to /etc/xdg/autostart/evolution-alarm-notify.desktop thus removing it may stop running it on session start. If anything else is using the evolution-data-server factories then it's another thing. When you check /var/spool/abrt/ before the login and after, does it contain any new directories? The executable file in a subfolder should tell you what application crashed, I suppose (I do not know abrt much). I filled a 3.1.92 update yesterday, please try to update from it, it's in updates-testing (edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo and set enabled=1 in the first section, then run yum update evolution; it should update everything evolution-related). The only question is whether this is due to evolution or not.
Ok So I can find that abrt/ is filled up with 2 directories after a failed Gnome session. One directory holds a file called executable with the content "/usr/bin/gsettings-data-convert" Would You need the full contents from this directory? I probably can compress the files and add to this bug. Tom
It sounds to me like your desktop login issues may not be related to Evolution, especially considering that Evolution doesn't use GSettings yet.
Ok You may be right - but the issue always appears after having configured evolution-exchange plugin. So no other changes are done to the system at all. I have done the test a few times and the procedure is like this: I have 2 user accounts. 1 from which I can "rescue" my main account. The main account works fine until I have set up Evolution-exchange. When that setup is finished, Gnome crashes and I am given the sad face and the Logout-screen. Any subsequent login-attempt with my main profile is unsuccessful with the same symptom as described above. If I remove my main account including all files, create it again, I can log in as normal. This works fine until the named plugin is configured again. Normally I have 3 different mail-accounts in Evolution. Setting up 1 or 2 non-exchange accounts works perfect. Regardless of order or number of accounts. Hope this provides anymore info.
Hi again Checked the abrt directory this morning after having cleared it and made an unsuccessful login attempt into Gnome. It contains 2 directories with a few seconds in between. The first executable is what I have reported before - gsettings-data-convert The second directory, created some seconds later has the executable gnome-shell. Uploading a picture of the directories and the contents of the files if this helps You.
Created attachment 524137 [details] Picture of abrt contents
And I forgot to mention that I am currently using evolution-exchange 3.1.92 from updates-testing. Cheers!
Thanks for the update. I currently tried to reproduce this, with the same evolution-exchange version, though for me it's not with gnome-shell, but with a fallback mode. I saw an issue with the notification applet, something about unexpected exit of it, but apart of that nothing, furthermore, I wasn't able to reproduce this applet exit whatever I tried. Please try to get backtrace from the abrt crash report for the gnome-shell, as it's the application which is showing you the "sad face" with the logout prompt.
Hi Here is what I found. I hope it is what You are looking for.
Created attachment 524159 [details] ABRT content from last failed login attempt. ABRT content from last failed login attempt.
Created attachment 524209 [details] backtrace generated from the above report
And this is the crashing thread: Thread 1 (Thread 0xb775c880 (LWP 2007)): #0 g_str_hash (v=0x0) at gstring.c:142 #1 0x4cf6ac98 in gee_hash_map_lookup_node (self=0x9b44ed0, key=0x0) at hashmap.c:930 #2 0x4cf6aff1 in gee_hash_map_real_has_key (base=0x9b44ed0, key=0x0) at hashmap.c:969 #3 0x4cf5d578 in gee_abstract_map_has_key (self=0x9b44ed0, key=0x0) at abstractmap.c:313 #4 0x00909624 in _folks_backends_eds_backend_ab_source_list_changed_cb (self=0x954a570, list=<optimized out>) at /opt/gnome2/source/folks/backends/eds/eds-backend.vala:180 #5 0x49c70be4 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x9bddf70, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x9be0600, invocation_hint=0xbfdc1120, marshal_data=0x0) at gmarshal.c:85 #6 0x49c6f6a5 in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x9bddf70, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x9be0600, invocation_hint=0xbfdc1120) at gclosure.c:774 #7 0x49c83bb0 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x955d468, detail=0, instance=0x9bcdf00, emission_return=0x0, instance_and_params=0x9be0600) at gsignal.c:3272 #8 0x49c8c85f in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x9bcdf00, signal_id=409, detail=0, var_args=0xbfdc12cc "p\016\v\n") at gsignal.c:3003 #9 0x49c8c9d4 in g_signal_emit (instance=0x9bcdf00, signal_id=409, detail=0) at gsignal.c:3060 #10 0x002d702a in load_from_gconf (list=0x9bcdf00) at e-source-list.c:172 #11 0x002d732f in conf_changed_callback (client=0x956f4b8, connection_id=3741319176, entry=0xaf115478, list=0x9bcdf00) at e-source-list.c:234 #12 0x4b15c008 in notify_listeners_callback (listeners=0x961f1d0, key=0xa19b558 "/apps/evolution/addressbook/sources", cnxn_id=3741319176, listener_data=0x9aa2498, user_data=0xbfdc13e8) at gconf-client.c:2810 #13 0x4b151d9f in notify_listener_list (listeners=0x961f1d0, user_data=0xbfdc13e8, callback=0x4b15bf50 <notify_listeners_callback>, key=0xa19b558 "/apps/evolution/addressbook/sources", list=0x9cbcc10) at gconf-listeners.c:590 #14 ltable_notify (user_data=0xbfdc13e8, callback=0x4b15bf50 <notify_listeners_callback>, key=0xa19b558 "/apps/evolution/addressbook/sources", lt=0x961f1d0) at gconf-listeners.c:656 #15 gconf_listeners_notify (listeners=0x961f1d0, all_above=0xa19b558 "/apps/evolution/addressbook/sources", callback=0x4b15bf50 <notify_listeners_callback>, user_data=0xbfdc13e8) at gconf-listeners.c:185 #16 0x4b15f7e8 in notify_one_entry (client=0x956f4b8, entry=0xaf115478) at gconf-client.c:2835 #17 0x4b15f8c7 in gconf_client_flush_notifies (client=0x956f4b8) at gconf-client.c:2875 #18 notify_idle_callback (data=0x956f4b8) at gconf-client.c:2769 #19 0x49b58401 in g_idle_dispatch (source=0x9f9edc8, callback=0x4b15f820 <notify_idle_callback>, user_data=0x956f4b8) at gmain.c:4801 #20 0x49b5c5bf in g_main_dispatch (context=0x9147330) at gmain.c:2441 #21 g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x9147330) at gmain.c:3011 #22 0x49b5cd00 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x9147330, block=1236711392, dispatch=1, self=0x913c080) at gmain.c:3089 #23 0x49b5d337 in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x91497f0) at gmain.c:3297 #24 0x4aef33d0 in meta_run () at core/main.c:555 #25 0x0804a2b8 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfdc1704) at main.c:571
I'm assigning this to folks, because the crash comes from there.
As a workaround, please move away /usr/lib/folks/27/backends/eds folder somewhere else, thus the eds backend will not run, and the gnome-shell will not crash.
I moved this upstream [1] and the fix will be probably included in the next release of folks. Please see [1] for any further updates. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659732