Re: [Evolution] evolution crashes on startup

[Alan S Barnett <alansbarnett verizon net>]

I got evolution to work again.  Unfortunatly, I lost all my data.  I
guess I'm not paranoid enough. I moved ~/.gconf/apps/evolution to
~/.gconf/apps/evolution- and I didn't back up the ~/evolution folder.  
When I started evolution, it started up, but not only did it create a
new ~/.gconf/apps/evolution folder, but it also wiped out both my
~/evolution folder and the backup ~/.gconf/app/evolution- settings
folder.

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:43, guenther wrote:
> > 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