[Evolution] Bug#825725: evolution: Crashes on start: GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

[clayton]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.20.2-2
Severity: important

Context: my environment is uncommon, this is Debian Testing running headless as a VM on Qubes OS
with the Xserver running in dom0. This used to work before recent updates, so I am thinking
glibc?

This is what happens now when I try to start evolution in an xterm in Debian on Qubes:

$ evolution&
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open swrast (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
(evolution:3059): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion 'string != NULL' failed

I have the nearly exact same version of Debian Testing running on bare metal, with a somewhat
different selection of packages, where evolution currently starts just fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.24-9.pvops.qubes.x86_64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.10.8-1
ii  evolution-common       3.20.2-2
ii  evolution-data-server  3.20.2-2
ii  libc6                  2.22-9
ii  libcamel-1.2-57        3.20.2-2
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0   1.8.0-1
ii  libecal-1.2-19         3.20.2-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-21  3.20.2-2
ii  libevolution           3.20.2-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.48.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.20.4-1
ii  libical2               2.0.0-0.4
ii  libicu55               55.1-7
ii  libnotify4             0.7.6-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.54.1-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0     2.4.11-1+b1
ii  libxml2                2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  psmisc                 22.21-2.1+b1

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  bogofilter         1.2.4+dfsg1-4
ii  evolution-plugins  3.20.2-2
ii  yelp               3.20.1-1

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-ews                   <none>
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           1.4.20-6
ii  network-manager                 1.2.2-1

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