I have a problem where evolution segfaults when I attempt to read certain e-mail messages with attachments, however, not all messages with attachments. But I had the problem with 1.0.8 and I tried upgrading to 1.2.1 but it still crashes on the same messages. I'm running kde 3.0.5a and I think all of my related gnome libraries are up to date.
A possible fix is to edit the /etc/gnome-vfs-mime-magic file and comment out all lines that say "belong". I had the same problem and this fixed it.
That worked for me. Thanks much
it probably is the attachment somehow, can't do much about it. If you comment out the belong line it just ignores those lines (aka it will never pick up the right mime type of those messages).
I am also receiving this rather frustrating bug. KMail works fine right now, but the killer app Evolution crashes when I even TRY to send an email with an attachment. (everything's fine til, I click the add attachment button, and select a file to attach--instant crash). Also, selecting certain emails with attachments causes the mailer portion of the program to crash instanteously. If commenting out those lines creates another problem, what do you suppose the problem is? I've tried unmerging and emerging evolution and immediately the problem happens again. Perhaps the formatting of that gnome-mime file is deprecated? This is a fresh install of 1.4_rc2 on AMD 2100 XP 256 MB ram, nforce2 chipset. Tony Jones
It isn't really a big problem commenting out those lines, just less filetypes get recognized in apps. Anyway on second thought, evolution probably shouldn't crash over it. Can someone gimme a backtrace of when it happens (with debugging symbols) ? And probably a faulty attachment (or is it really _any_ attachment)?
I don't know how to do a backtrace but I'm decently knowledgeable about linux so if you gave me some explanation I should be able to do it easily. One thing I've figured out in my case: I cannot attach ANYTHING without evolution-mail crashing; but for reading mails, email with jpeg attachments I seem to be able to read fine. Emails with plaintext files, ms office docs or the like, crash immediately upon selecting to read.
pdf files crash also. hoping this helps.
*** Bug 14545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
evolution 1.2.2 is marked as stable. does the attachment crashes still occur with that version? it would be mighty useful if people who are having those crashes use the instructions at ximian to obtain a backtrace: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_refno=010724-000013 or alternatively use bug buddy which should popup when it crashes and allows you to output debugging information.
no more traffic, closing assuming this is not a problem anymore
