Re: [Evolution] Evolution crashes when trying to compose email

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 19:58 -0400, Ken Wright wrote:
> On 2022-10-21 19:45, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > I just upgraded to Ubuntu 22.10 and Evolution 3.46.0-2, and all of a
> > > sudden I can't compose, send, or reply without Evo crashing.  There's
> > > obviously something wrong in the installation, but I'm a hardware 
> > > geek,
> > > not a software guru.  Can anyone shed any light on this issue?  
> > > Further
> > > details upon request.
> > There's been quite a few reports of crashing with that version.  You
> > don't say what sort of crash you see, but is it anything like
> >
> >  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/308
> >
> > which was fixed about a week ago but may take sometime to filter down
> > to the distros.
>
> Okay, you may now mock the hardware geek, because nothing at that link 
> made the slightest bit of sense to me.

No mocking from me - I would much rather be bit blasting I2C hardware.

> Now, let me describe the crash.  It starts with the program stopping, 
> and after a minute or two I get the option to Wait or Force Quit.  If I 
> Wait, I get the same message again a few seconds later.  Force Quit does 
> what it says it will, and terminates the program.

You need to start Evolution from the command line and it will show the
errors.

> If the problem was fixed a week ago, is there a Flatpak I can install 
> that works?  I can continue using RoundCube if I need to, but I'd rather 
> use Evo.
The problem with fixing things at the source level is that unless it's
a security bug, it often takes a while to filter through to updates to
apps in distros. 

P.