[Evolution] Bug#280662: BTS bug #280662: evolution crashes on startup

[Ross Boylan]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 08:54 +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you've all added to the report
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=280662 about startup
> crashes in Evolution.
> 
> Do any of you have repeated startup crashes with evolution 2.6.0-2? If
> so, I'll look into it. If not, please drop me a line saying that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Øystein Gisnås
Thank you for following up on this.  I have mixed news to report.
First, this is with 2.4.2.1-2, the current testing version.  So it's not
informative as a test of 2.6.

I have not been experiencing problems with evolution startup.  Since I
don't start it frequently, I tried about 5 startups from the command
line.  I did one --force-shutdown in the middle of the test.  It started
every time, though always generating
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adding hook target 'source'

(evolution-2.4:15659): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called
with NULL parameter.

(evolution-2.4:15659): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion
`GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
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on the terminal.

My problem, and possibly that of others, arose when creating a POP
account.  This didn't seem to crash my system; on the other hand, the
pop account doesn't show up in the list of accounts that evo shows in
the left pane, even after a restart.  This might be related to the
account having somewhat made up parameters (perhaps evo doesn't show it
if it can't make contact?).
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