[plug] Evolution crash????

[William Kenworthy]

An "old" problem - a number of evo versions can "crash" on particular
emails - at one time it was so bad I had to keep pine around just to
delete the offenders!

Try updating to the latest version (inc dependencies like gtkhtm etc) or
using another email client to delete the offender.  The version I am
using (2.6.2) is totally stable.

A last resort is sometimes you have to move the .evo file out the way
and recreate the accounts etc.

BillK

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 00:11 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 22:13 +0800, Jim Leven wrote:
> > Dear Perth Linux Users
> > 
> > I have a problem that Evolution 2.6 has suddenly decided to crash on
> > start up.
> > 
> > It gives the message that "The application "evolution 2.6 has quit
> > unexpectedly.  You can inform the developers...
> > 
> > Restart   or close.
> > 
> > Restarting just gets back to the same crash.  
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be most welcome.  I am running SuSE Linux
> > Enterprise 10, and have reinstalled Evolution with no improvement in the
> > situation.  
> > 
> > It is crashing on an email entitled "Borland Delphi.....", if this is
> > significant.
> 
> A conspiracy against Borland, perhaps? ;-)
> 
> Seriously, you need to give more info.  Eg, how was it running before
> the crashing; have you recently upgraded; from where did you get the
> version you run (ie, was it packaged by a 3rd party); have you checked
> that '/var' and/or '/tmp' is/are not full; have you forced a shutdown of
> evo by issuing either "evolution --force-shutdown" or the older (and
> better?) "/opt/gnome/lib/evolution/2.6/killev"; how did you reinstall -
> did you rpm -e evolution first or just reinstall over the top; have you
> tried winding back to an earlier version temporarily to see if the
> problem persists; etc, etc? I use evo 2.6 on opensuse 10.1 and haven't
> had such dramas.  
> 
> Finally, if you really suspect an errant email with malformed headers or
> something, then can you access your 'inbox' via a web interface and
> delete said email that way?  Alternatively, if the email is already in
> your 'inbox and you suspect it stopping evo starting then you might want
> to try manually editing the mbox file to delete the mail (I haven't had
> to do this myself so I presume it is do-able and won't muck up the mail
> database).
> 
> HTH
> 
> Gavin 
>  
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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