Re: [Evolution] Evolution version 3.30.5-1.1 crashing & logging me out of Debian 10.5

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 22:17 -0700, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> I'd love to know if anyone else has experienced this and the
> recommended solution because the nature of this problem seems to be
> unpredictable. 

        Hi,
it's very hard to guess what the cause is without having at least a
backtrace of the crash. You can get it with gdb, when you attach it to
the running evolution and when evolution crashes you issue the related
commands. As you said you are logged out of the session, I'd just run
Evolution, then switch to the text terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F3), log in
there, then run:

   $ gdb --batch --pid=`pidof evolution` --ex c --ex bt \
         --ex "t a a bt" &>~/bt.txt

then switch back to the graphical console (Alt+F1 or Alt+F2 usually)
and then just use Evolution. Once Evolution crashes the bt.txt may
contain the information. Please check the bt.txt for any private
information, like passwords, email address, server addresses,... I
usually search for "pass" at least (quotes for clarity only), before
you share it anywhere.

You said it begun recently. That may mean something updated, causing
the crash. Maybe the WebKitGTK had been updated to some recent version
say 2.30.x, which causes some issues with drag&drop. I do not know how
your distribution calls the WebKitGTK package, maybe webkit2gtk3, or
libwebkit2gtk3 or completely differently. If it had been updated, then
I'd try to downgrade it.

        Bye,
        Milan