I have been using evolution for several years now using an SSH-forwarded X11 connection (ssh -XY into the target host). This has worked well so far. After having upgraded to mail-client/evolution-3.38.2 recently, evolution is now completely unusable. When either opening an existing message or trying to compose a new message, I get the message (WebKitWebProcess:3): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:28:36.968: cannot open display: <hostname>:10.0 on the command line. Depending on the situation, either nothing happens in evolution or I'll get an error message telling me that WebKitWebProcess has crashed. Reproducible: Always # equery l evolution* webkit* * Searching for evolution* ... [IP-] [ ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-3.38.2:0/62-25-20 [IP-] [ ] mail-client/evolution-3.38.2:2.0 * Searching for webkit* ... [IP-] [ ] net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.30.3:4/37 # emerge --info Portage 3.0.9 (python 3.8.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.32-r3, 5.4.80-gentoo-r1-x86_64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1-x86_64-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_955_Processor-with-glibc2.2.5 KiB Mem: 7914460 total, 1487680 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16776692 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: ea0aa8a75fae5b48155cfe169c72796aacd533d7 sh bash 5.0_p18 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 app-shells/bash: 5.0_p18::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.7.9::gentoo, 3.8.6::gentoo, 3.9.0::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.17.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.20::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo 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After downgrading only the following two packages to the previous version, the problem disappears again: [IP-] [ ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-3.36.5:0/62-24-20 [IP-] [ ] mail-client/evolution-3.36.5:2.0
Could it perhaps be bug 761238 instead, not X forwarding specific?
(In reply to Mart Raudsepp from comment #2) > Could it perhaps be bug 761238 instead, not X forwarding specific? I doubt it - the problem looks very different, and I have been able to switch between "working" and "not working" by only changing the version of evolution, keeping webkit-gtk stable at 2.30.3. I have not tried upgrading webkit-gtk to 2.30.4 as mentioned in the other bug.
I am experiencing this exact same issue! Happened after updating to latest Evolution as part of Gnome 3.38 upgrade yesterday. I am unable to read my e-mails! I have had zero issues previously to this.
Downgrading to 3.36.5 gets my e-mails back. I suspect this might be something to do with the way Evolution 3.38 uses webkit-gtk.
I've been looking at this with Evolution 3.38.5 - still exhibits the same issue. I compiled webkit-gtk without Wayland USE flag and the issue was still there. Only downgrading Evolution & Evolution Data Server to 3.36.x cleared the issue.
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Is this still a problem with current versions?
Not with 3.44.4-r2, thanks.