[Evolution] Bug#703493: evolution: Evolution hangs on start, windows appears but nothing works

[Antoine Journeaux]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.4.4-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
Evolution hangs on start: everything is frozen, and the 'Generating  
the list of message...' (actually, its French equivalent) is displayed  
in the place of the mail list.
Nothing special was changed except normal updates, and no messages  
error appears if evolution is launched in a terminal.
Important notes: Evolution works if launched with the --offline  
parameter, and crashed if enterring the online mode.
Please find below the list of upgrades performed before the appearance  
of the problem. [MIS A JOUR] = [UPDATED]

Yours sincerely,

-- 
Antoine

Aptitude 0.6.8.2: journal
mer., mars 20 2013 07:57:38 +0100

IMPORTANT : ce journal ne contient que les actions demandées ;  
certaines actions qui
échouent à cause d'erreurs de dpkg peuvent donc ne pas être réalisées.

7 paquets vont être installés, et 0 retirés.
1 962 ko d'espace disque vont être libérés
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[MIS A JOUR] ifupdown:amd64 0.7.5 -> 0.7.5+nmu1
[MIS A JOUR] libhsqldb-java:amd64 1.8.0.10-11 -> 1.8.0.10+dfsg-0+deb7u1
[MIS A JOUR] libnss3:amd64 2:3.13.6-2 -> 2:3.14.3-1
[MIS A JOUR] libnss3-1d:amd64 2:3.13.6-2 -> 2:3.14.3-1
[MIS A JOUR] python-apt:amd64 0.8.8.1 -> 0.8.8.2
[MIS A JOUR] python-apt-common:amd64 0.8.8.1 -> 0.8.8.2
[MIS A JOUR] rsyslog:amd64 5.8.11-2 -> 5.8.11-3
===============================================================================



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                     1.6.8-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.49
ii  evolution-common         3.4.4-2
ii  evolution-data-server    3.4.4-3
ii  gconf-service            3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gconf2                   3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                    2.13-38
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                1.12.2-3
ii  libcamel-1.2-33          3.4.4-3
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0     1.2.0-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.100.2-1
ii  libebackend-1.2-2        3.4.4-3
ii  libebook-1.2-13          3.4.4-3
ii  libecal-1.2-11           3.4.4-3
ii  libedataserver-1.2-16    3.4.4-3
ii  libedataserverui-3.0-1   3.4.4-3
ii  libenchant1c2a           1.6.0-7
ii  libevolution             3.4.4-2
ii  libgail-3-0              3.4.2-6
ii  libgconf-2-4             3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgdata13               0.12.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2     3.4.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.4.2-6
ii  libgtkhtml-4.0-0         4.4.4-1
ii  libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0  4.4.4-1
ii  libgweather-3-0          3.4.1-1+build1
ii  libical0                 0.48-2
ii  libmx-1.0-2              1.4.6-1
ii  libnotify4               0.7.5-1
ii  libnspr4                 2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnspr4-0d              2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnss3                  2:3.14.3-1
ii  libnss3-1d               2:3.14.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.30.0-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1             2.38.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0             3.7.13-1
ii  libxml2                  2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  psmisc                   22.19-1+deb7u1

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  bogofilter         1.2.2+dfsg1-2
ii  evolution-plugins  3.4.4-2
ii  evolution-webcal   2.32.0-2+b1
ii  yelp               3.4.2-1+b1

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-dbg                   <none>
pn  evolution-exchange              <none>
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           1.4.12-7
ii  network-manager                 0.9.4.0-10

-- debconf information:
   evolution/kill_processes:
   evolution/needs_shutdown: