I can confirm this. A normal evolution run shows the following warnings: CalDAV Eplugin starting up ... (evolution-2.6:22253): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one (evolution-2.6:22253): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Bogofilter junk plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0' (evolution-2.6:22253): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with NULL parameter. Now when the help contents is opened, it shows this /usr/share/yelp/info.xml:0: error : unterminated entity reference development tools. Unmatched element: br In that case, when evolution is closed, it warns *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x00000000005daa00 *** When I attach to evolution with gdb, I see the following: [reading lots of symbols] 0x00002ba731f5a94b in pthread_setcanceltype () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 6 (Thread 1082132832 (LWP 22306)): #0 0x00002ba732b5ca9a in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00002ba72e230f22 in e_msgport_wait () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #2 0x00002ba72e23165b in e_thread_busy () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #3 0x00002ba732b5a0fa in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x00002ba731f4ece2 in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Thread 5 (Thread 1090525536 (LWP 22309)): #0 0x00002ba732b5ca9a in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00002ba72e230f22 in e_msgport_wait () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #2 0x00002ba72e23165b in e_thread_busy () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #3 0x00002ba732b5a0fa in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x00002ba731f4ece2 in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Thread 4 (Thread 1098918240 (LWP 22311)): #0 0x00002ba732b5ca9a in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00002ba72e230f22 in e_msgport_wait () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #2 0x00002ba72e23165b in e_thread_busy () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #3 0x00002ba732b5a0fa in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x00002ba731f4ece2 in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Thread 3 (Thread 1099184480 (LWP 22312)): #0 0x00002ba731f45e22 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002ba730c6ed00 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x00002ba730c6f18a in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0x00002ba72f51bb90 in link_thread_io_context () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 #4 0x00002ba730c87b6b in g_static_private_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00002ba732b5a0fa in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #6 0x00002ba731f4ece2 in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Thread 2 (Thread 1107577184 (LWP 22314)): #0 0x00002ba732b5ca9a in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00002ba72e230f22 in e_msgport_wait () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #2 0x00002ba72e23165b in e_thread_busy () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #3 0x00002ba732b5a0fa in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x00002ba731f4ece2 in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Thread 1 (Thread 47997159702112 (LWP 22297)): #0 0x00002ba731f5a94b in pthread_setcanceltype () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002ba7320bb840 in __malloc_initialize_hook () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00002ba731e87200 in ?? () #3 0x00002ba731ef5341 in posix_memalign () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x0000000000000020 in ?? () #5 0x00007fff7d03de00 in ?? () #6 0x00002ba7333e739f in _X11TransSocketRead (ciptr=, buf=0x0, size=2) at Xtranssock.c:2140 #7 0x00002ba7333eacf3 in _XRead (dpy=0x0, data=0x0, size=1) at ../../src/XlibInt.c:1074 #8 0x00002ba72e89f088 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0 #9 0x0000000000000060 in ?? () #10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #0 0x00002ba731f5a94b in pthread_setcanceltype () from /lib/libc.so.6 Well I hope this gets you somewhere. If I can download a debug build/package of evolution somewhere (or compile it easily), I can look at it into more detail if needed.