Default mail application dialog is responsive, but clicking on buttons does not work

Thanks for your bug. What default mailer was you using? What version of the
evolution package? Do you still have the issue?

no reply, bug closed. Feel free to reopen with the asked informations if that's
still an issue for you

I don't understand the first question, although I use an stmp mailer.

I have seen the bug since reporting, although it has been quite rare. I will
try and reproduce this and if I do, will provide a backtrace. Until then,
leaving it closed is fine.

ii evolution 2.4.1-0ubuntu7
                    The groupware suite
ii evolution-data-server 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    evolution database backend server
ii evolution-data-server-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Development files for evolution-data-server
ii evolution-exchange 2.4.1-0ubuntu1
                    Exchange plugin for the Evolution groupware
ii evolution-plugins 2.4.1-0ubuntu7
                    All bundled plugins for Evolution 2.2
ii evolution-webcal 2.4.1-0ubuntu1
                    webcal: URL handler for GNOME and Evolution
ii libcamel1.2-6 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Generic messaging library for evolution data
ii libcamel1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Generic messaging library for evolution data
ii libebook1.2-5 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Client library for evolution address books
ii libebook1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Client library for evolution address books (
ii libecal1.2-3 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Client library for evolution calendars
ii libecal1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Client library for evolution calendars (deve
ii libedata-book1.2-2 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Backend library for evolution address books
ii libedata-book1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Backend library for evolution address books
ii libedata-cal1.2-1 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Backend library for evolution calendars
ii libedata-cal1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Backend library for evolution calendars (dev
ii libedataserver1.2-4 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Utility library for evolution data servers
ii libedataserver1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Utility library for evolution data servers (
ii libedataserverui1.2-6 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Utility library for evolution data servers
ii libedataserverui1.2-dev 1.4.1-0ubuntu3
                    Utility library for evolution data servers (
ii libevolution-cil 0.10.1-0ubuntu7
                    CLI bindings...

you said that you had an another mailer configured as the default application so
you get the dialog on startup, what mailer is that and how did you configure it?

Ah, sorry I thought this was another bug, next Time I'll read my own bug report.
;) When I upgraded to breezy, I performed a manual dist-upgrade. Afterwards,
the default mailer was "evolution", but the application somehow was set to
invoke "evolution-2.4" when I clicked on the button. This may have been my
fault, through manually updating my quick launcher buttons.

Of course, I can't reproduce it ATM.

Go to System Preferences, Preferred APplications, Click on the Mail Reader tab,
Select the custom command, set it to something like: "thunderbird %s" ...

Then start evolution, it should pop up a dialog similar to the attachment. Now,
no matter which button I click on nothing happens for nearly 5-10 minutes at
which point it finally registers my input and starts evolution.

I am in the process of building the debug packages à la
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash ...

Once this is finished, I will provide a trace for where it is stuck ..

Another thing that was surprising, was that if I have "evolution %s" but was
starting evolution-2.4, this dialog pop ups as well, although in reality these
should be the same application.

Created an attachment (id=5604)
Screenshot of the dialog box which pops up

Created an attachment (id=5609)
Backtrace generated from thread apply all bt

Created an attachment (id=5610)
Backtrace generated from running 'where'

I've added the backtraces, that I was able to generate. When I used the
instructions from the debugging Programs page, I would run: "thread apply all
bt", it would generate the stack trace for thread # 4. I stopped pressing enter
after reaching 17000 or so lines of #42 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () ... Using
the where command I generated the other, probably more useful backtrace.

I just figured out that this is not a bug in Evolution's mail checker, it's a
bug in the code which tries to publish a calendar. As can be seen in one of the
backtraces, the code is blocked from a different portion. The problem is that
when the dialog is run, the calendar publish code is called, and it blocks on
some IO. Of course, my calendar publishing information was wrong, so it blocked.

To reproduce, go to preference, Edit->Preferences-> Calendar and Tasks ->
Free/Busy and select Add URL, then put in some URL information which will fail
after a network type timout. I had in:
sftp//my.school.server.ca/my/home/dir/www/calendar Along with a username and
password.

If you remove this from the publishing list, the dialog is responsive. Because
I'm sure as to which module is applicable to this bug, I'll leave it up to you
to re-assign it. If you need better backtraces, or still can't reproduce it let
me know.

Is this still a problem?

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.