Re: [Evolution] evolution 2.2 crashes

[Jason Chagas <jchagas verizon net>]

These are the steps that worked for me on Debian Sarge...

First create a text file (named 'gal2.4-2.4.2-jmc1.patch') with the
following content (note: ensure that lines that any lines that wrapped
around are properly fixed):

=========
--- ./gal2.4-2.4.2/gal/widgets/e-canvas.c~      2005-08-14 00:09:47.000000000 -0400
+++ ./gal2.4-2.4.2/gal/widgets/e-canvas.c       2005-08-14 00:11:23.000000000 -0400
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@

 void e_canvas_hide_tooltip  (ECanvas *canvas)
 {
-       if (canvas->tooltip_window) {
+       if (canvas && canvas->tooltip_window) {
                gtk_widget_destroy (canvas->tooltip_window);
                canvas->tooltip_window = NULL;
        }
=========

Then execute the following commands:

% apt-get source libgal2.4-0
% sudo apt-get build-dep libgal2.4-0
% dpkg-source -x gal2.4_2.4.2-1.dsc
% cd gal2.4-2.4.2
% cat ../gal2.4-2.4.2-jmc1.patch | patch -p1
% dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
% sudo dpkg -i ../libgal2.4-0_2.4.2-1_i386.deb

More details on how to build Debian packages are available here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html

If you're running a different distro, try the following steps instead:

1) Download/expand the sources tarball
2) CD into the source tree subdirectory
3) Apply the patch (% cat ../gal2.4-2.4.2-jmc1.patch | patch -p1)
4) Run the configuration build script (% ./configure)
5) Build gal (% make)
6) Save the original gal dynamically loadable library binary (%
mv /usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0.0.0  /usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0.0.0-orig)
7) Copy the new binary under /usr/lib (%
cp ./.libs/libgal-2.4.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/.)


Note, you may also want to copy 'libgal-2.4.a' as well 
but this may not be a requirement for 'evolution'.

I hope this helps...

Cheers,

Jason

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 13:10 +0200, postgate free fr wrote: 
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> That sounds correct but how do you apply this patch ?
>
> Thierry CHEN
>
> Selon Jason Chagas <jchagas verizon net>:
>
> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > [Switching to Thread 1094363712 (LWP 9123)]
> > > 0x4047517a in e_canvas_hide_tooltip () from /usr/lib/libgal-2.4.so.0
> > > (gdb)
> > > (gdb)
> >
> > I recently ran into a similar problem and applied a fix to 'gal' that
> > worked for me. More details here:
> >
> > http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution/2005-August/044430.html
> >
> >
> > Jason