F7: Evolution constantly crashing

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 01:35 +0200, bucky wrote:
> When this happened to me, and it was one of the infrequent times that
> BugBuddy was able to capture it, I just so happened to be launching
> it from the command line (because I can never remember where "killev"
> is and have to do rpm -ql | fgrep to find it, and I was just doing
> 'killev && evolution' over and over to get through the day
> that day).
> 
> One thing that gets printed to stdout but that does NOT get captured
> by BugBuddy is this:
> 
> glibc detected *** evolution: free(): invalid pointer:
> 
> Then there's a hex number, but it's different every time.
> 
> I have this fantasy that reporting the free() thing will be an "aha"
> moment for somebody. I'm in love with what evolution promises to
> do, and I'm always heartened when a new Fedora comes out with
> evolution as the default user agent. I'd like very much for it
> to Just Work.
> 
> But alas. My usage pattern apparently is hell on evolution's
> stability.
> 
> My bugzilla.gnome.org bug number is 449842, if somebody wants to help
> corroborate the fact that evolution just freezes sometimes--but not
> any time in particular (the bug report is still in the "Unconfirmed"
> state). I'm well aware that my ability to describe my own
> freezing problem kind of sucks, so there's a good chance that
> another number would be better.
> 
> 
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I would suggest there is something wrong with your evolution software
but this freezing does not happen to me, I would start from the
beginning and remove all your evolution software and start with a fresh
install.
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