Re: [Evolution] Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) – evolution 3.38.3-1 – terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'

[van snyder <van snyder sbcglobal net>]

Christian Focke <christian focke mail fernfh ac at> wrote that downgrading WebKitGTK was the solution to getting evolution to work again in Debian.

Christian: Can you provide more details?

I did the recommended

  user@host:~$ apt search libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

but I haven't been able to downgrade.

Did you use "apt-get install?" What were the remaining command-line fields?

Christian mentioned a "Pin-Priority in /etc/apt/preferences that prevented downgrading from 'oldstable' to 'stable'."

I don't have a file "/etc/apt/preferences." I have a directory "/etc/apt/preferences.d" but it's empty.

/var/log/dpkg.1 has this records concerning libwebkit2gtk:

2021-10-26 12:16:36 upgrade libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb10u1 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-26 12:16:36 status half-configured libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb10u1
2021-10-26 12:16:36 status unpacked libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb10u1
2021-10-26 12:16:36 status half-installed libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb10u1
2021-10-26 12:16:38 status unpacked libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-26 12:31:36 configure libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1 <none>
2021-10-26 12:31:36 status unpacked libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-26 12:31:36 status half-configured libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-26 12:31:36 status installed libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-31 19:26:02 upgrade libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1 2.34.1-1~deb10u1
2021-10-31 19:26:02 status half-configured libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-31 19:26:02 status unpacked libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-31 19:26:02 status half-installed libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.32.4-1~deb11u1
2021-10-31 19:26:03 status unpacked libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.34.1-1~deb10u1
2021-10-31 19:26:06 configure libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.34.1-1~deb10u1 <none>
2021-10-31 19:26:06 status unpacked libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.34.1-1~deb10u1
2021-10-31 19:26:06 status half-configured libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.34.1-1~deb10u1
2021-10-31 19:26:06 status installed libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 2.34.1-1~deb10u1

I tried to register for a Debian maintainers account so I could contact them to report the problem. It promised to send a confirmation e-mail so I could generate a password and log in, but the promised message never arrived.

Is anybody in the evolution list registered with the Debian maintainers? Has the problem in libwebkit2gtk been reported?

Accept my apologies if this isn't correctly formatted. I'm still not getting messages from the evolution list,. I read the thread from the archive. I am reduced to "replying" by posting a new message using what I hope is enough information to connect it to the thread.