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Bug 337105 - Evolution hangs at startup with a glibc error
Evolution hangs at startup with a glibc error
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 336767
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-03 22:22 UTC by Uri David Akavia
Modified: 2006-04-03 23:20 UTC
See Also:
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Description Uri David Akavia 2006-04-03 22:22:46 UTC 
I selected a message which caused evolution to crash.
When I restarted the application it hanged.

Starting it from terminal gives me the following:

$ evolution
adding hook target 'source'
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0817b810 ***

That's it - no further interaction. This is consistant, even after a restart. If you need more info, tell me what you need. I'd also appreciate even a work around hack, since right now, I don't have email...
Comment 1 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-04-03 23:15:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 336767 ***
Comment 2 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-04-03 23:20:21 UTC 
Uri, I am ready to bet you are using Debian testing/unstable. :)

This is a known Debian issue, due to the glib update. Please see bug 336767 for more information. A fast workaround is to start Evolution with this env variable set, until fixed packages are available:

$ G_SLICE=always-malloc evolution

Also, please check that Evo and its friends (evolution, e-d-s, evolution-plugins, libsoup, gtkhtml, etc.) are the latest version available, and do have matching version numbers (including the debian package version).


Please feel free to re-open this bug immediately, if I am wrong. Thanks.