(NB: this bug shows how broken the Ubuntu bug reporting system is. The original reporter left a perfectly good bug report, and someone set it to invalid without fixing it. Two and a half years later, we still have the same bug!)
I confirmed this problem on Intrepid Alpha, evolution 2.23.91-0ubuntu1. When evolution is started as a mailto: URI handler (from Firefox, for example) it never exits. Not only that, but after it fails to exit, it chews infinite amounts of CPU. Here's my ps axwww listing: jwb 21470 1 1 15:27 ? 00:00:18 evolution mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Verizon%20EVDO%20&%3b%20many%20extras!%20-%20$749%20(noe%20valley) You can see that evolution was started to handle a mailto: URI. You can also see that it has 18 CPU seconds charged against it, going up constantly. Let's use strace to see what it's doing: $ strace -s 1024 -f -p 21470 Process 21583 attached with 3 threads - interrupt to quit [pid 21583] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> <unfinished ...> [pid 21470] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> <unfinished ...> [pid 21581] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> Nothing in particular. Maybe GDB can tell us something: (gdb) info threads 3 Thread 0xb2cf9b90 (LWP 21581) 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () 2 Thread 0xb24f8b90 (LWP 21583) 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () 1 Thread 0xb633c940 (LWP 21470) 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) thread 1 [Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0xb633c940 (LWP 21470))]#0 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) where #0 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb695fde7 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6a24c32 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0xb6a252c2 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0xb7516cf3 in bonobo_main () from /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0 #5 0x0805ed13 in main () (gdb) thread 2 [Switching to thread 2 (Thread 0xb24f8b90 (LWP 21583))]#0 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) where #0 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb695fde7 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6a24c32 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0xb6a252c2 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0xb74c87f0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 #5 0xb6a4c05f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #6 0xb78f74ff in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #7 0xb696a64e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) thread 3 [Switching to thread 3 (Thread 0xb2cf9b90 (LWP 21581))]#0 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) where #0 0xb7f7e430 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb695fde7 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6a24c32 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0xb6a252c2 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0xb7ae6ee2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.9 #5 0xb6a4c05f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #6 0xb78f74ff in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #7 0xb696a64e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Not too informative. Now to answer your buck-passing questions: $ gconftool-2 -g "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command" evolution %s $ grep -i evolution /home/jwb/.xsession-errors evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 38317 1221980400 1221942083 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 2008 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Sat Sep 20 13:21:23 2008 evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server... ** (evolution:21470): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:21470): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution Yes, the same thing happens if I start evolution from a terminal: $ evolution mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server... ** (evolution:2829): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:2829): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution store_db_path /home/jwb/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db folders table succesfully created store_db_path /home/jwb/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com/folders.db folders table succesfully created store_db_path /home/jwb/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com/folders.db folders table succesfully created Triggering summary_reloaded on BATN 0x90821d8 Triggering summary_reloaded on INBOX 0x90e5618 Triggering summary_reloaded on [Gmail]/All Mail 0x90e5718 Triggering summary_reloaded on INBOX 0x9082258 Saving 2/14269 dirty records of INBOX Triggering summary_reloaded on [Gmail]/Sent Mail 0x90ff090 Triggering summary_reloaded on [Gmail]/Spam 0x90ff110 Triggering summary_reloaded on [Gmail]/All Mail 0x90823d8 Saving 2/14900 dirty records of [Gmail]/All Mail Triggering summary_reloaded on [Gmail]/Sent Mail 0x90824d8 Triggering summary_reloaded on [Gmail]/Spam 0x9082558 Saving 4/22303 dirty records of [Gmail]/Spam Triggering summary_reloaded on geda 0x90826d8 Triggering summary_reloaded on mozilla bugs 0x9082658 Triggering summary_reloaded on pg 0x90825d8 Triggering summary_reloaded on sfbc 0x9082558 Triggering summary_reloaded on sfbike 0x90824d8 Saving 1/2583 dirty records of sfbike Triggering summary_reloaded on simile 0x9082458 Saving 1/1 dirty records of Sent When running from the command line, ctrl+c/SIGINT and even SIGTERM won't kill it. I have to use SIGKILL. Hopefully I have provided enough information to leave the bug open this time. ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- Evolution stays running in the background when mailto: link used https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/46860 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
