Re: [Evolution] Evo segfaulting on Fedora 14

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On 11/08/2010 04:31 AM, Akhil Laddha wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 20:30 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Evo 2.32, Fedora 14 x86_64.
> >
> > I'm having serious problems with one Evo installation but not with
> > another. Both are fresh installs of Fedora 14. They both access the same
> > IMAP servers (one of which is Gmail) with the same account info. The
> > difference is that one is also a new user account on the machine, while
> > the other is my existing home directory restored from backup after the
> > system install.
> >
> > For more, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646591
> >
> > This is so bad that Evo is effectively unusable, which is why I'm
> > sending this using TBird.
> >
> > Suggestions about what to clean up in my home dir would be welcome. Just
> > note that 2.32 seems to hold state info all over the place
> > (~/.evolution, ~/.gconf, ~/.local, ~/.config, and who knows where else).
> > Must be some new Gnome standard, but in addition to being confusing it
> > means that the Evo FAQ is now out of date.
>
> That is due to XDG based directories migration. You can read more about
> it at
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2010-June/msg00000.html
>
> You may be having ~/.evolution in case migration is not done completely.

There isn't anything there except some empty directories. Am I to assume 
that ~/.evolution no longer exists in the default install?

[As an aside, I can't help thinking that the old Unix style of a single 
configuration file or directory had a lot going for it (though of course 
as a Gnome app Evo didn't fully conform). No doubt the XDG standard has 
some arguments in favour, but being easy to understand, or even 
remember, is not one of them].

poc