Re: [Evolution] evolution crashes on startup

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I recently edited my account information.  When I tried to save the
> changes, evolution crashed.  Since then, whenever I try to start
> evolution, it fails and gives a "Segmentation fault" error message.  I
> can run evolution on my machine as root.
> I figure that some configuration setting is causing the crash.  I tried
> renaming my "evolution" folder (which contains settings), but it still
> crashes.

No, settings are stored using GConf since 1.4.0. So the settings are in
~/.gconf/apps/evolution, whereas your data is in ~/evolution.

If you want to try removing the settings, move the mentioned evolution
dir in GConf. However, before messing around with any file in the GConf
dir, be sure to close the GConf daemon, as it holds this data in memory.
'gconftool-2 --shutdown' is the command these days, not sure about your
version. See 'gconftool-2 --help' for available options.

Backing up your data and settings *before* might be a good idea.
Paranoia saves your day!


> Any ideas?

Not sure... But you seem to be right about these crashes being related
to your settings, IMHO.

HTH

...guenther


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