Bug 1565667

Summary: Evolution crashes (failure to allocate gigacage memory) during startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Karl <kaiserkarl31>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Milan Crha <mcrha>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 26CC: alexl, caillon+fedoraproject, lucilanga, mcrha, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann
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Description Karl 2018-04-10 14:03:37 UTC
Description of problem:
Evolution crashes with a segmentation fault as soon as it is executed.

Error message if run from the shell is

FATAL: Could not allocate gigacage memory with maxAlignment = 34359738368, totalSize = 103079215104.

Setting unlimited virtual memory via ulimit does not prevent the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.24.6-1.fc26.x86_64

How reproducible:
Unknown

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open shell
2. Run "evolution"

Actual results:
Error message and core dump

Expected results:
Evolution opens

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Comment 1 Milan Crha 2018-04-11 07:15:24 UTC
Thanks for a bug report. It's WebKitGTK+ fault. Either downgrade it or use one of the tricks references in the bug #1564970.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1564970 ***