I was really frustrated by this bug as this was effecting my work. I decided to experiment a bit this morning and I believe I found a solution.
I am not skilled in this so will not provide you with technical details or reasons of the bug. Here is what I did: 1. Back-up of my emails: "File -> Back-up Evolution Data" 2. Remove Evolution: In terminal: sudo apt-get remove evolution -y 3. Clean up: sudo apt-get autoclean 4. Reboot: sudo reboot 5. Update system: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y 6. Reboot again: sudo reboot 7. Install clean Evolution: sudo apt-get install evolution 8. Reboot (requested by system) This solved all my problems with Evolution. It's not crushing any more, can use preview pane, can resize windows, can open any email in seperate window. Hope this helps you too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166447 Title: evolution crashes on startup after upgrade to 13.04 if preview pane enabled Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Evolution crashes right after startup. Disabling the preview pane prevents this from occurring, but it crashes immediately upon re-enabling the preview pane. This occurs no matter which email is selected. It crashes with the message: ** (evolution:31611): CRITICAL **: gchar* webkit_dom_character_data_get_data(WebKitDOMCharacterData*): assertion `WEBKIT_DOM_IS_CHARACTER_DATA(self)' failed ..apport does not come up automatically after a crash of evolution, so I ran ubuntu-bug. ..I'll be happy to assist in whatever way is necessary. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Apr 8 13:49:23 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-05 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64(20121023) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-07 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1166447/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
