SOLVED: evolution crashes before it starts

Henning Larsen hennlar at start.no
Sun Nov 23 03:32:03 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 02:45 +0100, Henning Larsen wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I belive I had a hd failure on my /home
> Now, when I start evolution, it crashes before it starts.
> 
> from command line, this is what I get:
> 
> [henning at saturn ~]$ evolution
> ** (evolution:2980): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution --component=mail %s
> ** (evolution:2980): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution
> *** glibc detected *** evolution: double free or corruption (out):
> 0x000000397436da70 ***
> 
> following this message I get a long list called backtrace.
> 
> the two first lines starting with ** is identical to what I get on an other
> machine, but the third line:
> *** glibc detected *** evolution: double free or corruption (out):
> 0x000000397436da70 ***  
> 
> is not on the other machine.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what I can do to rescue my mails
> 
> I have done fsck -f on the home partition, and fixed some errors, but the errors
> is still the same.
> 
> BTW, this is f10 but I am pretty sure that is irrelevant.
> 
> Please help Henning Larsen :-)
> 
I did remove some folders from .evolution, and that did fix it.
Some of the files and folders was recreated. No missing mails, i think.

Henning




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