Description of problem: Evolution consistently crashes at startup. The only work-around seems to be: mv ~/.evolution some/other/dir which then allows it to run but I've (obviously) lost all my contacts, past emails, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. start evolution and watch it immediately crash 2. spews many warnings 3. Additional info: Dozens or even hundreds of warnings of the form: === warnings === (evolution-2.6:24636): camel-local-provider-WARNING **: Could not open/create index file: Too many open files: indexing not performed (evolution-2.6:24636): camel-WARNING **: Could not save object state file to '/home/edhill/.evolution/mail/local/MAIL_folders.sbd/F--G--H--I.sbd/.#ieee_cs.cmeta': Too many open files === warnings === and here is a back-trace after installing evolution-debuginfo-2.6.3-1.fc5.5 camel-local-provider-ERROR **: file camel-mbox-folder.c: line 356 (mbox_get_message): assertion failed: (info->frompos != -1) aborting... Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread -1249965152 (LWP 28391)] 0x00441402 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0x00441402 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x0048b069 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x0048c671 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x00863c42 in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0x00863c79 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00863cf6 in g_assert_warning () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #6 0x05206bce in camel_mbox_folder_new () from /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so #7 0x0463fffc in camel_folder_get_message () from /usr/lib/libcamel-provider-1.2.so.8 #8 0x01047a23 in get_message_get (mm=0x8c919e8) at mail-ops.c:1752 #9 0x010452d5 in mail_msg_received (e=0x8a0da80, msg=0x8c919e8, data=0x0) at mail-mt.c:570 #10 0x0476cef4 in e_msgport_wait () from /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.7 #11 0x006fd40b in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #12 0x0052bb7e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb)
This might be a dupe of bug #198935, which should be fixed in Fedora Core 6. Ed, can you please try upgrading and see whether Evolution 2.8 still crashes on you at startup?
The distribution against which this bug was reported is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora Core 6, or Fedora 7, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. Thanks in advance.
Please close this bug. To the best of my memory, it took a few weeks for the evolution developers to understand the problem (too many open files) and then fix it. During that time period, I switched to sylpheed-claws (now claws-mail) because I needed a working MUA for day-to-day activities and I just couldn't wait. Evolution served me well for few years and now I'm a claws-mail user.
Closing as requested.