Description of problem: evolution dies on SIGABRT at least twice every day Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-3.2.3-3.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Always (for my configuration) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start evolution. 2. Use it for some hours. 3. Watch it die with SIGABRT Actual results: (note Norwegian locales. "Avbrutt" means "Aborted") evolution: malloc.c:2949: __libc_malloc: Assertion `!victim || ((((mchunkptr)((char*)(victim) - 2*(sizeof(size_t)))))->size & 0x2) || ar_ptr == (((((mchunkptr)((char*)(victim) - 2*(sizeof(size_t)))))->size & 0x4) ? ((heap_info *)((unsigned long)(((mchunkptr)((char*)(victim) - 2*(sizeof(size_t))))) & ~((2 * (4 * 1024 * 1024 * sizeof(long)))-1)))->ar_ptr : &main_arena)' failed. Avbrutt (SIGABRT) (core dumped) Expected results: Stable evolution Additional info: I see there are some abrt reports with SIGABRT in bugzilla, so this might be a duplicate. I'll run evolution through gdb to catch a backtrace. Special conditions: I use evolution against two fairly large imap accounts (imapx and imap), containing several hundred thousands of email each. I always keep evolution running, that is, until it crashes.
Created attachment 586789 [details] gdb backtrace after SIGABRT
Thanks for a bug report. There is a similar upstream bug [1]. The problem with it is that it's hard to reproduce, as memory corruption bugs use to be (at least it seems to be a memory corruption bug), because they depend heavily on used data and order of commands. I see that this happens under search folder. Do you use search folders much? If yes, then it is a problem, but if not, then maybe you could run evolution under valgrind, like this: $ G_SLICE=always-malloc valgrind --num-callers=50 evolution &>log.txt whcih will check memory usage and possibly will be able to show where the memory corruption happened, though the evolution itself will be practically unusable due to all memory usage checking (evoltuion basically cannot run under valgrind with search folders enabled). I would move this under the upstream bug [1], just to not duplicate the work here, but I'll wait on your reply first. Thanks in advance. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669244
Yes, I use some 33 search folders, but I see similar problems on my laptop with only a handful (<10) search folders. Well-working search folders is to me the one thing that makes evolution my preferred mua. Ingvar
You might like to know that I changed search folders for 3.5.2 (development version, to be 3.6.0 stable) that they are quicker and more reliable than they used to be. I do not know what to do with this bug, though. If it was fixed either in Fedora 17 (3.4.x) or it's related to search folders, and changes in Fedora 18 (3.6.x) will fix the issue, then I guess we can just close this bug report?
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