Bug#884048: gnome-shell: /usr/lib/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-calendar-server continually crashes with segfault
Control: severity -1 serious
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
>
> > Dec 10 13:17:40 lavaine kernel: [ 3324.799650] gnome-shell-cal[2352]: segfault at 100000812 ip 00007f2eeafd0324 sp 00007ffd0bc3d6d0 error 4 in libical.so.2.0.0[7f2eeaf8d000+5e000]
> To explain what's happening here:
> gnome-shell links directly against libical (here against v2) and also
> against libecal (from evolution-data-server).
> evolution-data-server was updated to link against libical v3. The result
> is, that gnome-shell was now loading libical2 (directly) and libical3
> (indirectly via libecal) into its address space. This is not supported
> and leads to the crash.
>
> I decided to add a Conflicts: libical2 to libecal (see #884012) to avoid
> this situation.
>
> So from my POV, this bug can be closed. Other DDs mentioned on
> #debian-devel though, that this conflicts should be added directly to
> libical3. I'm thus leaving this bug report open for further discussion
> but downgrade the severity, as the immediate issue (the segfault in
> gnome-shell) is addressed by #884012.
KDE has/had similar problems, setting back to RC to prevent testing
migration until this is sorted out.
> Regards,
> Michael
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Adrian
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