Re: [Evolution] evolution crashing

[Bart <montana_evolution_user hardinmt us>]

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 08:40 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> 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

I disabled Tracker as you suggested.  I *could* install all the debug
packages but I'm unsure which ones to install.  Is this the proper or
most useful place to try to resolve this, or is there another?  I'm
certainly willing to do what I can to help with evolution using my
limited knowledge.

Bart

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