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  1. Bug #1166447
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Comment 8 for bug 1166447

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Brian Ealdwine (eode) wrote : Re: evolution crashes on startup after upgrade to 13.04

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