Hello,

I have upgraded a Notebook from SARGE to ETCH.
But the E-mail program EVOLUTION does not start
anymore.

strace evolution

finishes with:
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

I have googled for hours - nothing found.

please, what can I do to get some hint?

Hugo




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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 13:00:00 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have upgraded a Notebook from SARGE to ETCH.
> But the E-mail program EVOLUTION does not start
> anymore.
>
> strace evolution
>
> finishes with:
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>
> I have googled for hours - nothing found.
>
> please, what can I do to get some hint?

It would be important to see a few lines of the strace output that comes
immediately before the segfault.

Also, a more general question: Did you follow the upgrade guide (Etch's
release notes) when you went from Sarge to Etch?

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 13:00:00 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have upgraded a Notebook from SARGE to ETCH.
> But the E-mail program EVOLUTION does not start
> anymore.
>
> strace evolution
>
> finishes with:
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>
> I have googled for hours - nothing found.
>
> please, what can I do to get some hint?

It would be important to see a few lines of the strace output that comes
immediately before the segfault.

Also, a more general question: Did you follow the upgrade guide (Etch's
release notes) when you went from Sarge to Etch?

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--- Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
wrote:
> It would be important to see a few lines of the
> strace output that comes


Hello Florian,
here they are a few of the last lines.
The lines above look pretty much the same, with
different library files to be looked for:

open("/usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so.0d", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3,
"\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2 60<\0"...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=307016,
....}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 310420, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb6ae0000
mmap2(0xb6b28000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x47) =
0xb6b28000
close(3) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6adf000
open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/tls/i686/cmov/libdb-4.4.so",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/tls/i686/libdb-4.4.so",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/tls/libdb-4.4.so",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so", O_RDONLY)
= 3
read(3,
"\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2 60x\1"...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1023476,
....}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1027036, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb69e4000
mmap2(0xb6adc000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xf7) =
0xb6adc000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Process 3243 detached


> immediately before the segfault.
>
> Also, a more general question: Did you follow the
> upgrade guide (Etch's
> release notes) when you went from Sarge to Etch?


I followed the upgrade guide pretty well, except that
not libfam0c102 is installed, but libgamin0 due to the
installation of XFCE4.

The notebook is running pretty well with the default
kernel-image-2.6-386 (2.6.18+6)

Hugo


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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 15:28:46 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
> --- Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> It would be important to see a few lines of the
>> strace output that comes
>
>
> Hello Florian, here they are a few of the last lines.
> The lines above look pretty much the same, with
> different library files to be looked for:
>
> open("/usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so.0d", O_RDONLY) = 3
> read(3,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2 60<\0"...,
> 512) = 512
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=307016,
> ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 310420, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb6ae0000
> mmap2(0xb6b28000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x47) =
> 0xb6b28000
> close(3) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb6adf000
> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/tls/i686/cmov/libdb-4.4.so",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/tls/i686/libdb-4.4.so",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/tls/libdb-4.4.so",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so", O_RDONLY)
> = 3
> read(3,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2 60x\1"...,
> 512) = 512
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1023476,
> ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 1027036, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb69e4000
> mmap2(0xb6adc000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xf7) =
> 0xb6adc000
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> Process 3243 detached

That is strange, where does the /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so file
come from? If I am to trust apt-file then libdb-4.4.so should be located
in /usr/lib/ and it should come from package libdb4.4.

Can you post the output of the following four commands:

dpkg -l evolution\* libdb4.4 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'

dpkg -S /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so

file /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so

ldd $(which evolution) | grep libdb-4.4.so

>> immediately before the segfault.
>> Also, a more general question: Did you follow the
>> upgrade guide (Etch's
>> release notes) when you went from Sarge to Etch?
>
> I followed the upgrade guide pretty well, except that
> not libfam0c102 is installed, but libgamin0 due to the
> installation of XFCE4.

That is perfectly normal. I was only asking about following the upgrade
notes because I wanted to rule out having to worry about possible
kernel, udev, or Xorg problems. Looks like your system is OK in that
respect.

> The notebook is running pretty well with the default
> kernel-image-2.6-386 (2.6.18+6)

That is nice. I think the evolution problem might be due to a stray
library, left over from, for example, an installation of non-Debian
OpenOffice.org packages.

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 15:28:46 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so", O_RDONLY)
> = 3
> read(3,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2 60x\1"...,
> 512) = 512Process 3243 detached
>
>
> That is strange, where does the /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so file
> come from? If I am to trust apt-file then libdb-4.4.so should be located
> in /usr/lib/ and it should come from package libdb4.4.
>
there is a symlink to /usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so
> Can you post the output of the following four commands:
> dpkg -l evolution\* libdb4.4 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
>
ii evolution 2.6.3-6etch1
ii evolution-common 2.6.3-6etch1
ii evolution-data-server 1.6.3-5etch1
ii evolution-data-server-common 1.6.3-5etch1
un evolution-data-server-dbg <none>
un evolution-data-server1.2 <none>
ii evolution-dbg 2.6.3-6etch1
pn evolution-exchange <none>
ii evolution-plugins 2.6.3-6etch1
un evolution-plugins-experimental <none>
ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8
> dpkg -S /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so
>
dpkg: /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so not found.
> file /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so
>
/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so: symbolic link to
`/usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so'
> ldd $(which evolution) | grep libdb-4.4.so
>
/usr/bin/ldd: line 117: 4677 Segmentation fault
LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW=
LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out LD_VERBOSE= "$@"
> I think the evolution problem might be due to a stray
> library, left over from, for example, an installation of non-Debian
> OpenOffice.org packages.
>
There was no NON-DEBIAN software installed before the upgrade, no one
program or package from outside of the original Debian release.

Hugo

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 22:00:45 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 15:28:46 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
>> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so", O_RDONLY)
>> = 3
>> read(3,
>> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2 60x\1"...,
>> 512) = 512Process 3243 detached
>>
>> That is strange, where does the /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so file
>> come from? If I am to trust apt-file then libdb-4.4.so should be located
>> in /usr/lib/ and it should come from package libdb4.4.
>>
> there is a symlink to /usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so

OK, maybe that is normal for Etch then. (I use Sid.)

>> Can you post the output of the following four commands:
>> dpkg -l evolution\* libdb4.4 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
>>
> ii evolution 2.6.3-6etch1
> ii evolution-common 2.6.3-6etch1
> ii evolution-data-server 1.6.3-5etch1
> ii evolution-data-server-common 1.6.3-5etch1
> un evolution-data-server-dbg <none>
> un evolution-data-server1.2 <none>
> ii evolution-dbg 2.6.3-6etch1
> pn evolution-exchange <none>
> ii evolution-plugins 2.6.3-6etch1
> un evolution-plugins-experimental <none>
> ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8

That looks alright to me. One thing to try is to temporarily purge
evolution-plugins and test if that fixes the problem.

>> dpkg -S /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so
>>
> dpkg: /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so not found.

That could simply mean that the symlink was created by an installation
script. No cause for concern so far, I think.

>> file /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so
>>
> /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so: symbolic link to
> `/usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so'
>> ldd $(which evolution) | grep libdb-4.4.so
>>
> /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: 4677 Segmentation fault
> LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW=
> LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out LD_VERBOSE= "$@"

ldd segfaulting might indicate a serious problem with the dynamic
linker. Do you get the same segfault if you run ldd on another binary,
e.g. "ldd /bin/true"?

Also, which version of libc6 do you have installed?

It might also to check the md5sums of all files from the evolution
and the libdb4.4 package:

debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | grep -v OK$

Maybe a file got corrupted.

> There was no NON-DEBIAN software installed before the upgrade, no one
> program or package from outside of the original Debian release.

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Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg
under linux?

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> Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg
> under linux?

Check out clive and mpgtx in the repository.

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On 8/9/07, ISHWAR RATTAN <rattan@cps.cmich.edu> wrote:
> Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg
> under linux?
>
> -ishwar
>

Use mencoder. A basic example:
mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg
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ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
> Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg
> under linux?
>
> -ishwar
>
>
>
Yes.
Assuming that you have mencoder, the script I use prior to converting
from anyvideo.* to *.mpg prior to converting to DVD format is as follows:

/usr/bin/mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf
scale=720:576,harddup \
-srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
-lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=98 00:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=4/3:\
acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 25 -o original.flv newvideo.mpg

HtH

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>> ldd $(which evolution) | grep libdb-4.4.so
>>>
>> /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: 4677 Segmentation fault
>> LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW=
>> LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out LD_VERBOSE= "$@"
>>
>
> ldd segfaulting might indicate a serious problem with the dynamic
> linker. Do you get the same segfault if you run ldd on another binary,
> e.g. "ldd /bin/true"?
>
Florian thanks for your reply,

ldd /bin/true
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7de6000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f27000)
> Also, which version of libc6 do you have installed?
>
libc6 version 2.3.6.ds1 (by aptitude)
> It might also to check the md5sums of all files from the evolution
> and the libdb4.4 package:
>
> debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | grep -v OK$
>
debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | grep -v OK$
debsums: no md5sums for libdb4.4
> Maybe a file got corrupted.

That is it.
debsums had not been installed.
sleuthkit (/bin/md5) had not been installed.
md5 libdb4.4_4.4.20-8_i386.deb
revealed a different checksum, than the checksum published here:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/d...rch=i386&file=
pool%2Fmain%2Fd%2Fdb4.4%2Flibdb4.4_4.4.20-8_i386.deb&md5sum=
90cebbe1a1b15485dd85d24fa4895e3e&arch=i386&type=ma in

I have eliminated all .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives
and after apt-get install --reinstall libdb4.4
(NET-INSTALL)
Have I got a running EVOLUTION.

Thank you very much.

Hugo

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 00:16:04 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]

>> It might also to check the md5sums of all files from the evolution
>> and the libdb4.4 package:
>>
>> debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | grep -v OK$
>>
> debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | grep -v OK$
> debsums: no md5sums for libdb4.4
>> Maybe a file got corrupted.
>
> That is it.
> debsums had not been installed.
> sleuthkit (/bin/md5) had not been installed.
> md5 libdb4.4_4.4.20-8_i386.deb
> revealed a different checksum, than the checksum published here:
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/d...rch=i386&file=
> pool%2Fmain%2Fd%2Fdb4.4%2Flibdb4.4_4.4.20-8_i386.deb&md5sum=
> 90cebbe1a1b15485dd85d24fa4895e3e&arch=i386&type=ma in
>
> I have eliminated all .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives
> and after apt-get install --reinstall libdb4.4
> (NET-INSTALL)
> Have I got a running EVOLUTION.

That is nice. You might want to check your hard drive a bit now; the
corrupted .deb file might be a sign of trouble with your hard disk.
You could have a look at the "smartmontools" package, for example.

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
> On 8/9/07, ISHWAR RATTAN <rattan@cps.cmich.edu> wrote:
> > Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg
> > under linux?
> >
> > -ishwar
> >
>
> Use mencoder. A basic example:
> mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg

This shouldn't work. "oac copy" means to copy the video unchanged, but then
you try to use the "lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video", a flag that only works if
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On 8/9/07, Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
> > Use mencoder. A basic example:
> > mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts
> > vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg
>
> This shouldn't work. "oac copy" means to copy the video unchanged, but then
> you try to use the "lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video", a flag that only works if
> you select "oac lavc".

-oac is output audio codec. I tested it on a youtube video and it works.
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:16:10PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
> > > Use mencoder. A basic example:
> > > mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts
> > > vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg
> >
> > This shouldn't work. "oac copy" means to copy the video unchanged, but then
> > you try to use the "lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video", a flag that only works if
> > you select "oac lavc".
>
> -oac is output audio codec. I tested it on a youtube video and it works.

You are correct. I am an idiot. I will now go smack myself with a 2x4.
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On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Carl Fink wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:16:10PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
>> On 8/9/07, Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
>>>> Use mencoder. A basic example:
>>>> mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts
>>>> vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg
>>>
>>> This shouldn't work. "oac copy" means to copy the video
>>> unchanged, but then
>>> you try to use the "lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video", a flag that only
>>> works if
>>> you select "oac lavc".
>>
>> -oac is output audio codec. I tested it on a youtube video and it
>> works.
>
> You are correct. I am an idiot. I will now go smack myself with a
> 2x4.

Don't be too hard on yourself. mencoder's command line syntax is
almost as confusing as sox's.

I wish I could remember which package had, in the BUGS section of its
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