Hi Peter, Am Montag, den 15.05.2006, 13:57 -0500 schrieb Peter Van Lone:
This morning, I tried to accept an appointment invite. It crashed evo. Now, after a restart of the machine, evo will not start at all. It "trys to" ... and then just quietly goes away. Where should I look for a log? Is it likely that there is anything I can do, short of re-installing?
Naaah, no re-installing needed, this isn't Micros~ Windows. ;-) Now there are quite some ways to start debugging this and at hunt down the real cause. a) Have a look at the project page outlining details to get more verbose debug spewage in the terminal. Maybe this helps already. http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml b) To actually find out what goes wrong here, you can also run Evolution in gdb (the Gnome Debugger): $ gdb evolution After that, type "run" and hit the Enter key. When Evolution hangs, hit "Control + C", enter "thread apply all bt" and post the output here or file a new bug in Evolution's bug database at http://bugzilla.gnome.org . c) As this likely is data or settings related, it is a particular component only. To check this, start Evo with a component explicitely set, rather than picking up the last used one (mailer, presumably): $ evolution -c tasks will start Evo with the Tasks component. Does it still crash? See 'evolution --help' for other options. d) If it is the Mailer component crashing, a common cause is a particular mail that crashes while being rendered. To prevent rendering of the mail, you can disable the preview pane and set the message display to 'source', which will display the raw message. Disable the preview pane: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/mail/display/show_preview --type bool 0 Display the raw source message: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/mail/display/message_style --type int 2 e) I would also recommend to update Evolution and friends to the latest stable versions (Evolution 2.6.1, Evolution-data-server 1.6.1, Evolution-exchange 2.6.1, GtkHtml 3.10.1) if your distributor provides those packages. The latest stable version of the 2.4.x development series is Evolution 2.4.2.1. See http://gnome.org/projects/evolution/download.shtml . cheers, andre (thanks to guenther for quotations) -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
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