Evolution crashes on opening

[Michael]

Hi,

I upgraded this morning, 27/4/2013, and now the mail application, Evolution, is not working.

The problem is that if I open Evolution it displays my mails and then closes immediately. I cannot do anything ie open a mail, make a back up etc. It doesnt give me a chance to.

1 - Ubuntu Release:
michael@Home:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04

2 - Evolution version:
3.6.4-0ubuntu1

3 - I expected Evolution to open and allow me to retrieve mails etc

4 - Evolution closed on its own without giving me a chance to perform any functions

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 27 12:37:40 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-27 (517 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bazon (bazonbloch)]

Same here. In fact, I only need to open Evolution to add other Google-Sub-Calendars, so they are displayed in my Gnome-Shell-Panel. So if someone knows a workaround for adding other Google-Sub-Calendars without using evolution, I would be happy about that.

[Michael (bradbum)]

Hi,

I managed to get mine sorted by doing a complete removal via the
Synaptic Package Manager. I then downloaded it again from the Software
Centre. What came as a surprise all my mails and archives were intact
afterwards.
--
Regards

Michael Bradbury
0844430271

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore I am perfect.

On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 21:27 +0000, Bazon wrote:
> Same here. In fact, I only need to open Evolution to add other Google-
> Sub-Calendars, so they are displayed in my Gnome-Shell-Panel. So if
> someone knows a workaround for adding other Google-Sub-Calendars
> without using evolution, I would be happy about that.
>

[Bazon (bazonbloch)]

@Michael#4:

I also tried that, but did not have success. Did you remove any other packages apart from the normal evolution package? (There are lots of other packages including "evolution" installed...)

[Michael (bradbum)]

Hi,

I did a "complete removal" of evolution via synaptic that was it, it
removed all that was linked. I installed via the software centre and
added what I wanted from there.
--
Regards

Michael Bradbury
0844430271

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore I am perfect.

On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 08:25 +0000, Bazon wrote:
> @Michael#4:
>
> I also tried that, but did not have success. Did you remove any other
> packages apart from the normal evolution package? (There are lots of
> other packages including "evolution" installed...)
>

[Bazon (bazonbloch)]

thanks, but that didn't help for me either. even after that, evolution only appears for about a second and then crashs.

[Bazon (bazonbloch)]

OK, after a reboot it works. :-)

[Michael (bradbum)]

Excellent, glad you came right

On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 16:17 +0000, Bazon wrote:
> OK, after a reboot it works. :-)
>

[Michael (bradbum)]

Thank you

On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 19:01 +0000, featherstone wrote:
> hi this worked for me also . well done
>

[Michael JasonSmith (mpj17)]

Worked for me, too. I ran

  $ sudo apt-get purge evolution
  $ sudo apt-get autoclean

I then installed evolution (from the Software Centre) and restarted (to ensure all the Evo' related daemons were restarted).

[Brad G (brad-goold)]

None of the above worked for me.
running from terminal gave this in the last lines
(evolution:6244): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property EShellSettings::composer-prompt-reply-many-recips after class was initialised
Segmentation fault (core dumped)