Ok.. ..so, the state of affairs is: There are apparently two bugs I'm running into: 1) Evolution crashes on startup, consistently, if preview pane is enabled. 2) Evolution crashes when searching through messages and 'message contains' or 'body contains' is the search option. This also can cause crash on startup if search term is remembered from last session.
To work around bug #1: ..this is the less-drastic of the two, but significantly hinders workflow: evolution --disable-preview To work around bug #2: ..this is pretty painful, and you will probably want to make backups of the data. You will lose your email history and other evolution data. Be sure you have this bug before you try this workaround. Again, it happens when you search your messages, and the search option (when you click on the magnifying glass) is "message contains" or "body contains". Even though it deletes your history locally, if you mail server still has it available, it will still be available through that. ..close evolution first. # to keep a backup: mv ~/.local/share/evolution ~/.local/share/evolution.old # or, to just remove the data altogether: rm -Rf ~/.local/share/evolution -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166447 Title: evolution crashes on startup after upgrade to 13.04 Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: If I start evolution, it stays open for about a second, notifies me of new messages, then crashes. It does this every time. ..apport does not come up automatically after a crash of evolution, so I ran ubuntu-bug. ..I'll be happy to assist in whatever way is necessary. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Apr 8 13:49:23 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-05 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64(20121023) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-07 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1166447/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
