From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 Epiphany/1.0.7 Description of problem: My evolution crashes right after trying to answer a mail. I newly installed Fedora Core 2 Test 1, no update, on a plain home directory and added 2 IMAP mailaccounts, one which uses SSL in both directions. If I try to start evolution from the console, it produces the following output right before crashing: asked to activate component_id `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_SelectNames:1.5' (evolution:2603): EBook-CRITICAL **: file eab-book-util.c: line 85 (eab_name_and_email_query): assertion `book && E_IS_BOOK (book)' failed (gnome_segv2:2623): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gstrfuncs.c: line 2129 (g_strsplit): assertion `string != NULL' failed (gnome_segv2:2623): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gstrfuncs.c: line 2241 (g_strjoinv): assertion `str_array != NULL' failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-1.5.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start evolution 2. try to answer a mail 3. see it crashing Actual Results: it crashes Expected Results: I want to see some kind of editor for answering mail :-) Additional info:
After looking around in em-utils.c, I found this might be a translation bug. In em-utils.c, there's a format string like this: "%a, %Y-%m-%d at %H:%M %%+05d, %%s wrote:" The german translation swaps the %%s and %%+05d The failed eab_utils assertion seems unrelated to this, but also doesn't seem to do any ill. Fixing the german translation fixed the bug for me.
Created attachment 98513 [details] Patch for a bug in the german translation
Fixed in upstream CVS; latest Rawhide version has the fix.