Evolution 2.6.3 crashing

[Yuri Pankov]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 19:30 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 13:41 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:58 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > 
> > > My evolution keeps crashing, I'm trying to capture the errors but i
> > > don't really see any.
> > > So I thought I would compile it with debugging turned on.   To do this I
> > > just need,
> > > 
> > > make -DWITH_DEBUG 
> 
> 
>    Well this isn't a valid KNOB ( that I can tell) for compiling
> evolution.
>    Can anybody point me in the right direction?  Evolution will be
> working 
>    just fine, then all of sudden it locks up crashes.    It seems to be
> when 
>    it is fetching mail, I think.   I've tried redirecting the stdout &
> stderr into 
>    a file and the only thing I see that looks critical is this,
> 
>     GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT
> (object)' failed
> 

I'm not sure, but it may crash due to G_DEBUG env variable being set to
"fatal_criticals". You can try to unset it, if it's the case.

>     I also started it with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 and this didn't show
> anything but
>     normal operations, i.e. calling spamc ...etc.
> 
>     I keep recompiling evolution, but I think maybe I should run a 
>    
>     potupgrade -frR mail/evolution
> 
>      Any ideas?
> 
>                                                 Thanks.
> 
> 

Follow instructions given here:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html .
And you would want to compile Evolution with following settings
in /etc/make.conf:
CFLAGS=-g -pipe
STRIP=


Yuri