[Evolution] Evolution 0.5.1 is still profoundly unstable on my system

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley att net>]

The theme problem still persists with the latest release.  I am using
the Default theme, but with a custom font (Clean 14 pt) on Mandrake
7.0.  If I keep the custom font, Evolution crashes every single time.
This is as far as it gets:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
Registered type for component -- (contacts)
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:addressbook:b7a26547-7014-4bb5-98ab-2bcac2bb55ca

Evolution component activated successfully --
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:addressbook:b7a26547-7014-4bb5-98ab-2bcac2bb55ca

Registered type for component -- (calendar)
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-calendar:2eb9eb63-d305-4918-9c35-faae5db19e51

Evolution component activated successfully --
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-calendar:2eb9eb63-d305-4918-9c35-faae5db19e51

Registered type for component -- (mail)
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-mail:d3cb3ed6-a654-4337-8aa0-f443751d6d1b

Evolution component activated successfully --
OAFIID:evolution-Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
Registered type for component -- (contacts)
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:addressbook:b7a26547-7014-4bb5-98ab-2bcac2bb55ca

Evolution component activated successfully --
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:addressbook:b7a26547-7014-4bb5-98ab-2bcac2bb55ca

Registered type for component -- (calendar)
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-calendar:2eb9eb63-d305-4918-9c35-faae5db19e51

Evolution component activated successfully --
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-calendar:2eb9eb63-d305-4918-9c35-faae5db19e51

Registered type for component -- (mail)
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-mail:d3cb3ed6-a654-4337-8aa0-f443751d6d1b

Evolution component activated successfully --
OAFIID:evolution-shell-component:evolution-mail:d3cb3ed6-a654-4337-8aa0-f443751d6d1b

Shell: Registering storage -- VFolders
Shell: Registering storage -- External Directories
Folder registered successfully -- /Bigfoot Bigfoot
Folder registered successfully -- /Netcenter Netcenter

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
shell-component:evolution-mail:d3cb3ed6-a654-4337-8aa0-f443751d6d1b
Shell: Registering storage -- VFolders
Shell: Registering storage -- External Directories
Folder registered successfully -- /Bigfoot Bigfoot
Folder registered successfully -- /Netcenter Netcenter

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library


If I switch to the default font, then evolution will always crash the
first time it comes up.  Here's the last part of what it returns:

....
EStorageSetView: Adding -- /local/Sent
EStorageSetView: Adding -- /External Directories/Bigfoot
EStorageSetView: Adding -- /External Directories/Netcenter

Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkwindow.c: line 850 (gdk_window_move_resize):
assertion `window != NULL' failed.

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library


If I try to launch evolution again, then it will come up.  But if I try
to switch to Calendar for example, it will crash.  When I launch
evolution again and switch to Calendar, it will work.  But switching to
address book will then crash.

I assume that all of this is probably due to the fact that there are
evolution processes still running in the background and that they are
not communicating very well when evolution gets launched again
(presumably because the processes were originally launched when I had
the custom font selected, and now that's different from the font in
use???).  By the way, after running through all this mess, I have 3
evolution-mail processes, one evolution-calendar process, and one wombat
process going.  This doesn't seem right.  Why are there 3 mail processes
running?

Dan