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evolution-data-server package

"evolution-data-server" has to be installed for Thunderbird 15 after upgrade to be executable, otherwise Thunderbird will crashs at runtime

Bug #1038047 reported by Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig on 2012-08-17

This bug affects 14 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
evolution-data-server	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #685713
evolution-data-server (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Chris Coulson
Quantal	Fix Released	High	Chris Coulson

Bug Description

"evolution-data-server" had to be installed for Thunderbird 15 after upgrade to be executable,
otherwise Thunderbird crashed at runtime.

This happened after installing all (K)ubuntu updates from 2012-08-16. The distribution is "Kubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal".

There was a glib - error reported. Some dbus - error about not accessable evolution settings.
After installing "evolution-data-server-common". The error message was more elaborate, but the error persisted.
After installing "evolution-data-server" and restarting Thunderbird, the error was gone.

I uninstalled "evolution-data-server-common" and "evolution-data-server" afterwards.

The error is gone, it seems to me that the bug was caused by the automatic upgrade to Thundrbird 15.

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Related branches

lp:ubuntu/quantal-proposed/evolution-data-server

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Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig (gjwucherpfennig) wrote on 2012-08-17:

No, the error is persistent:

without packages "evolution-data-server-common" and "evolution-data-server" you will
get this error at the command line:

(thunderbird:2883): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.Evolution.DefaultSources' is not installed
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

After installing "evolution-data-server-common" you will get this error:

(thunderbird:3118): e-data-server-ERROR **: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources0: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-source-registry: Success
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

So you need to install the package "evolution-data-server"!

Thunderbird 15 has an undocumented runtime-dependency to "evolution-data-server"!

Damn, I don't want "Evolution"!

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) on 2012-08-17

affects:	thunderbird (Ubuntu) → evolution-data-server (Ubuntu)
Changed in evolution-data-server (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2012-08-17:

This will fix it Edit (6.4 KiB, text/plain)

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2012-08-17

tags:

added: patch

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Peter Matulis (petermatulis) wrote on 2012-10-05:

On Lubuntu I have methodically isolated the cause of *my* problem to the following plugin: 'EDS Contact Integration'. Thing is, it's a default plugin.

When I enable this plugin tbird starts but the instant I click on a folder it crashes. Sometimes I need to click on a few folders (but so far, never more than 3. I'm not sure why this can be). When I disable it this behaviour is not present, even after much clicking.

I was brought here due to my original bug (bug #1061958) being made a duplicate of this one. That might not be correct.

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Peter Matulis (petermatulis) wrote on 2012-10-05:

This also, for me, just started happening within the last 24 hours.

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Karma Dorje (taaroa) wrote on 2012-10-07:

$ dmesg | tail
[ 2767.620539] thunderbird[19782] trap int3 ip:7f6dba31ac7f sp:7f6d8b4fecb0 error:0
[ 2783.349511] thunderbird[20107] trap int3 ip:7f5aae71ac7f sp:7f5a7fdfecb0 error:0
[ 2799.191674] thunderbird[20436] trap int3 ip:7fe34001ac7f sp:7fe3123fecb0 error:0
[ 2835.292226] thunderbird[21104] trap int3 ip:7f7947a1ac7f sp:7f79268fecb0 error:0
[ 2884.750060] thunderbird[22066] trap int3 ip:7f883c91ac7f sp:7f880fcfecb0 error:0
[ 3100.137345] thunderbird[25929] trap int3 ip:7f889241ac7f sp:7f88640fecb0 error:0
[ 3177.936076] indicator-datet[27444] trap int3 ip:7f9bc1675c7f sp:7f9bb0bffab0 error:0
[ 3178.156308] indicator-datet[27486] trap int3 ip:7fd28aa87c7f sp:7fd279810ab0 error:0
[ 3178.491962] indicator-datet[27498] trap int3 ip:7fa69418ac7f sp:7fa67edefab0 error:0
[ 3179.040463] indicator-datet[27510] trap int3 ip:7fb43d542c7f sp:7fb431ba7ab0 error:0

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Karma Dorje (taaroa) wrote on 2012-10-07:

gdb_thunderbird.txt Edit (9.9 KiB, text/plain)

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-10-08

Changed in evolution-data-server:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-09:

This bug was fixed in the package evolution-data-server - 3.6.0-0ubuntu2

---------------
evolution-data-server (3.6.0-0ubuntu2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix LP: #1038047 part 1 - Don't abort in e_source_registry_new* when a
    problem occurs connecting to the Dbus service
    - add debian/patches/dont-abort-in-e_source_registry_new.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Fix LP: #1038047 part 2 - libedataserver depends on
    evolution-data-server-common to ensure that the GSettings schemas are
    present
    - update debian/control
-- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:58:16 +0100