Re: [Evolution] evolution crashing

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 14:08 -0400, George Reeke wrote:
> Dear Bart et al.
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:42 -0400, Bart Hollis wrote:
> > Quite often, evolution crashes.  (Evo 2.30.1.2 on openSuse 11.3 on top
> > of KDE)  It just goes away.  If I start it from a command prompt, I can
> > see quite a few errors, the final ones being fatal (of course).  It's
> > been doing this for a while and I thought to just wait and see if it got
> > fixed and an update provided.
>
> I get what appears to be the same thing with Evo. 2.12.3 on RedHat
> EL 5.6 (64 bit), gnome 2.16, i.e. evo just disappears at almost any
> random time no matter what I am doing, but no error messages.
> I reported this to RedHat (who have not fixed it through all
> subreleases of EL5), but not to the evo bugzilla because the
> version is so old, but I am mentioning it now because the fact
> that this problem has survived so many releases may help narrow
> it down.
> I don't have the debug packages installed, but I could if that
> would help someone.  Probably better to work with the current
> version, which I cannot do as yet.

        Hi,
I'm just curious, how do you know it's the same thing? There is no exact
clue why it's crashing for the other user, neither for you, so how could
you compare these?

For the initial crasher, as it mentions Tracker, I would suggest to
disable/uninstall Tracker's evolution plugin. It used to crash
evolution. But it's really a wild guess, you may provide backtrace of
the crash with debug info packages installed for evolution-data-server,
evolution, gtkhtml3 (and any other packages related to evolution) to
have as detailed backtrace as possible, for better searching and
identifying the issue.
        Bye,
        Milan