Evolution on Debian 3.1 Testing

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi,

I'm writing this from my Windows partition (I'd rather be using my
Debian 3.1 Testing partition) as Evolution crashes upon startup with the
seemingly famous 'This application has quit unexpectedly' message.  I'm
hoping somebody can tell me:

a)  Whether I should be talking on this list, or finding out who the
Debian maintainer is for the evolution package and talking directly to them.

b) Which log files I should be looking at for further information, and
the best way to provide people with that information.

I appreciate this initial post is too generic for anyone to fix the
technical issue, but I don't want to post pages of irrelevant
information and I don't know my way around the linux logging tools at
present.  If someone can point me in the right general direction I'll
try and figure out the specifics from the man pages.

Thanks in advance,

Mark


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[Ron Johnson]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:37 +0100, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing this from my Windows partition (I'd rather be using my
> Debian 3.1 Testing partition) as Evolution crashes upon startup with the
> seemingly famous 'This application has quit unexpectedly' message.  I'm

Did it just start dying, or has it never worked?

> hoping somebody can tell me:
>
> a)  Whether I should be talking on this list, or finding out who the
> Debian maintainer is for the evolution package and talking directly to them.
>
> b) Which log files I should be looking at for further information, and
> the best way to provide people with that information.
>
> I appreciate this initial post is too generic for anyone to fix the
> technical issue, but I don't want to post pages of irrelevant
> information and I don't know my way around the linux logging tools at
> present.  If someone can point me in the right general direction I'll
> try and figure out the specifics from the man pages.

Try running evo from a terminal window command line.  That may
give you a hint.

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[Andre Klapper]

hi mark,

Am Montag, den 22.08.2005, 20:37 +0100 schrieb Mark Wilkinson:
> I'm writing this from my Windows partition (I'd rather be using my
> Debian 3.1 Testing partition) as Evolution crashes upon startup with the
> seemingly famous 'This application has quit unexpectedly' message.

which evolution version are you running exactly? 2.2.3 is the latest
stable release.

>   I'm
> hoping somebody can tell me:
>
> a)  Whether I should be talking on this list, or finding out who the
> Debian maintainer is for the evolution package and talking directly to them.

depends if it's only a problem of the debian build or a general
evolution problem, what we both do not know currently. ;-)

> b) Which log files I should be looking at for further information, and
> the best way to provide people with that information.

what is the output if you run evolution from a shell? if evolution
crashes, please take a look at section "Debugging Evolution's Crashes"
at <http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml> and submit the
"debugging info" (it's called gdb stacktrace or backtrace) either on a
new bug report at <http://bugzilla.gnome.org> or post it again to this
list (posting to bugzilla is preferred by the developers, by the
way :-).


cheers,
andre

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[Yavor Doganov]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:37:33 +0100, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> I'm writing this from my Windows partition (I'd rather be using my
> Debian 3.1 Testing partition) as Evolution crashes upon startup with the
> seemingly famous 'This application has quit unexpectedly' message.  I'm
> hoping somebody can tell me:
>
> a)  Whether I should be talking on this list, or finding out who the
> Debian maintainer is for the evolution package and talking directly to them.

As a Debian user, you should be aware of the Debian BTS and first take a
look at bugs there [1] and particularly this one [2], where you'll find a
workaround.  The migration of GNOME 2.10 to testing was stuck due to
various reasons; this was discussed here as well.  I am upgrading my
testing machine everyday and run Evo's mail component only.  If it crashes
on every startup, just change the GConf key
apps/evolution/shell/view_defaults/component_id to "mail" (using the GConf
Editor).

There's no need to contact the maintainer(s) as normally this is done
through the BTS.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=evolution
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321746

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