Ubuntu
evolution package

Evolution does not start, prints out line breaks

Bug #188815 reported by Yarin Kaul on 2008-02-04

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

If I start evolution there is no window or dialog popping up. Instead evolution just prints out endless line breaks to the console.

Running "strace evolution" reveals that evolution is calling recvfrom() over and over again. See the attached strace.txt.

I tried the following, all if them did not help:
1) pkill -9 evolution
2) mv ~/.evolution ~/.-evolution
3) rm -rf /tmp/*
4) reboot

But running evolution as root DOES work.

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$ uname -a
Linux keks 2.6.24-5-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 24 19:29:14 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ evolution --version
GNOME evolution 2.21.90

$ cat /etc/lsb-release|head -n3
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy

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Yarin Kaul (yarin) wrote on 2008-02-04:

strace.txt Edit (18.5 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-02-04:

Thanks for the report, can you reproduce the same with another new user created on your system?, thanks.

Changed in evolution:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-03-10:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.