Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125154
Evolution crashes when composing new mail or open configuration menu
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:44 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 Description of problem: I have upgraded Red Hat 7.x to Fedora 2 in two different computers, in one of them (Pentium 4), evolution seems to work fine but in the other (an old Pentium 2), the program crashes when I try to compose a new message and also when I try to open the configuration tool. I have searched other bugs and I think the most similar one is 115834 but I am not sure if it is exactly the same. I have deleted the directories ~/evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution to check if some broken configuration remains from the older version, the program starts, ask me the data of my mail account but the problem remains. I submit as attachements the bug-buddy reports for both crashes, it seems to me that aspell and gnome-spell are involved, so it might be a translation problem as it happened in bug 115834 (by the way, I am using the Spanish version). But, why it shows up in one computer and not in the other? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-1.4.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Evolution 2. Click "new message" or select "Tools -> Configuration" Actual Results: Crash and bugbuddy screen shows up. Expected Results: The compose screen or the configuration screen should appear Additional info:
Created attachment 100815 [details] Bugbuddy report for crash when open configuration menu
Created attachment 100816 [details] Bugbuddy crash report when composing new message
I also reported a similar bug, but can't find it. I upgraded from RH-7.3 to RH-9, got back to RH-7.3, then upgraded from RH-7.3 to FC1 then to FC2. Evolution crashes when I try to change preferences. This issue doesn't seem to be related to old configuration of evolution, as I never used evolution with RH-7.3. But it can be related to other mail tools used before (elm, mutt, balsa, ...). No such problem on a brand new installation of FC1 with /home copied from RH-7.3 system.
Thanks for your comments. According to it, something remains somewhere from the RedHat packages which should be overwritten by the Fedora packages but is not. Perhaps looking in the log files of the installation, I can find a message about some /etc/whateverconfigfile of whoknowswhichpackage that has been kept instead of overwritten. If I find something useful, I will write it here ...
I've found it! I have started evolution from a terminal to see whatever messages appear and just before crashing the last message was a complaint about the bad format of file /usr/lib/aspell/fr-40-only.rws. This file belongs to the package aspell-fr. I have checked that an old version of this package remained in the system after upgrading to Fedora 2. I have upgraded the packaged with the version included in Fedora 2 and the problem has dissapeared. The bug is then either in the installation program that "forgot" to upgrade this package or in the dependendes of package spell that should be made incompatible with old versions of spell-xx.
Thanks! It works, even if I had trouble importing mails from elm
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Problem appears to be solely when upgrading from old RHL editions. Resolving this one as WONTFIX, as not a security issue. If a Fedora Legacy team member (or reporter) wishes to reopen it, then go for it.
I don't understand: comment #5 from Miguel Quiros, anf my one (#6) clearly shows it is an aspell upgrade issue, and probably an aspell-fr one. Just forget about it (or reattribute).