Evolution Crashes

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 18:11 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:00 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:46 -0500, Gustavo A. Lozano wrote:
> > > > My evolution is generating a lot of crashes (currently I am up 2 date to
> > > > everything in the yum development tree)... Before posting the bugzilla,
> > > > I want to know about other experiences out there...
> > 
> > I see a lot of evolution crashes as well as a pernicious "denial of
> > workstation" ;-) I'll explain in a moment.
> > 
> > It is not unusual for the evolution GUI to spontaneously abort, when it
> > does it leaves the other evolution processes running. This happens once
> > or twice a day and appears to be completely random. Interestingly, if it
> > aborts while I'm composing mail not a single key stroke is lost when the
> > draft is recovered so I'm assuming it has some graceful opportunity to
> > save its state on the way down and is not an absolutely hard crash.
> 
> Please can you try to get a backtrace into Bugzilla.  I suspect a crash
> in gtkhtml3, so having the debuginfo for that package (as well as
> Evolution) would be useful.

FWIW: On FC3, I am pretty sure gtkhtml3 is at least one cause of evo
crashes, because many of the evo crashes I experience happen during
cut'n'paste operations from terminals into composer windows (Typical
case: Cut'n'paste a log from gcc's output into composer).

Ralf