Raghnall your steps right, your approack works because your uninstall the app that cause the bug.
The bug is related to evolution-indicator pack, perhaps more related to notifications parsing. Uninstalling indicator resolve all without make a big "mess" :D -- 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 if preview pane enabled Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Evolution crashes right after startup. Disabling the preview pane prevents this from occurring, but it crashes immediately upon re-enabling the preview pane. This occurs no matter which email is selected. It crashes with the message: ** (evolution:31611): CRITICAL **: gchar* webkit_dom_character_data_get_data(WebKitDOMCharacterData*): assertion `WEBKIT_DOM_IS_CHARACTER_DATA(self)' failed ..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