evolution crashing on startup

[James Wilkinson]

Mariano Draghi wrote:
> So he suggested to run evo2 running
>    export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.15
> before.
> It worked. But he couldn't explain me exactly why. He said that if that 
> solved the problem, then it's probably an obscure bug in glibc or 
> something. But it was very, very weird, as I was running Evolution 2 
> perfectly well before.

For the gory details behind LD_ASSUME_KERNEL, see
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html

If you use it at all, you turn off the NPTL model of threads.

I'm not sure why this should affect Evolution 2.

Hope this helps,

James.

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