evolution crashing suddenly, repeatedly. "insufficient resources"

[Scott R. Godin]

Scott R. Godin wrote:

following up to myself...

> anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? I try and run it, and 
> it flashes on the screen for all of less than a second, and then I get 
> the message as the below.

[snippage]

> The program 'evolution-2.6' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187565

has more detailed crash information along with a proper backtrace now that I've 
installed debuginfo packages for evolution, gtk2, cairo, and libX11