[Evolution] evolution crashes on startup

[Alan S Barnett]

I didn't lose my data after all; I still had a backup I made three days
ago.
Evolution crashes whenever I try to receive mail from an IMAP server. 
Two strange things:
1) I worked four days ago, and
2) It works on a machine at work, which is running the same version of
evolution.
I even tried to copy the ~/.gconf/apps/evolution folder from my machine
at work to my machine at home.  At work, the mail works fine; at home,
evolution crashes. (I'm running 1.4.5 on redhat9.) Any ideas?

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:43, guenther wrote:
> > I recently edited my account information.  When I tried to save the
> > changes, evolution crashed.  Since then, whenever I try to start
> > evolution, it fails and gives a "Segmentation fault" error message.  I
> > can run evolution on my machine as root.
> > I figure that some configuration setting is causing the crash.  I tried
> > renaming my "evolution" folder (which contains settings), but it still
> > crashes.
> 
> No, settings are stored using GConf since 1.4.0. So the settings are in
> ~/.gconf/apps/evolution, whereas your data is in ~/evolution.
> 
> If you want to try removing the settings, move the mentioned evolution
> dir in GConf. However, before messing around with any file in the GConf
> dir, be sure to close the GConf daemon, as it holds this data in memory.
> 'gconftool-2 --shutdown' is the command these days, not sure about your
> version. See 'gconftool-2 --help' for available options.
> 
> Backing up your data and settings *before* might be a good idea.
> Paranoia saves your day!
> 
> 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Not sure... But you seem to be right about these crashes being related
> to your settings, IMHO.
> 
> HTH
> 
> ...guenther
>