[Evolution-users] Evolution not opening a window in Debian 13 Trixie

[Van Snyder]

I booted to Debian 12 Bookworm, with the same home directory, and it
works. Now I'm even more confused.


On Sun, 2025-08-10 at 23:47 +0000, van snyder wrote:
> I'm running  version 3.56.1-1 in Debian Trixie using KDE Plasme
> version 6.3.6 on Wayland (not X11).
> 
> Today it decided to extinguish all its windows, and doesn't open new
> ones
> 
> I ran it from the command line with no options and it reported
> 
> > (org.gnome.Evolution:11433): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:19:37.058:
> > _gtk_css_lookup_resolve: assertion '(((__extension__ ({
> > GTypeInstance *__inst = (GTypeInstance*) ((provider)); GType __t =
> > ((_gtk_style_provider_private_get_type ())); gboolean __r; if
> > (!__inst) __r = (0); else if (__inst->g_class && __inst->g_class-
> > >g_type == __t) __r = (!(0)); else __r = g_type_check_instance_is_a
> > (__inst, __t); __r; }))))' failed
> >  
> > (org.gnome.Evolution:11433): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
> > 16:19:37.058: g_object_set_data_full: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT
> > (object)' failed
> >  
> > (org.gnome.Evolution:11433): Gtk-ERROR **: 16:19:37.058: Can't
> > create a GtkStyleContext without a display connection
> > 
> after which it's not running.
> 
> If I run it using evolution --display=":0" 
> 
> it reports
> 
> > (org.gnome.Evolution:15052): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:35:55.940: Only
> > strings supported after ':': \xe9: <Multi_key> <e> <apostrophe> :
> > \xe9
> >  
> > (org.gnome.Evolution:15052): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:35:55.940: Only
> > strings supported after ':': \xe9: <Multi_key> <grave> <e> : \xe9
> > 
> and it puts an item in the KDE Plasma task bar. Right-click on that
> box offers a menu with many items, including "New Window" and "Mail" 
> — which don't do anything other than showing a little jumping
> "evolution" icon for about ten seconds.
> 
> I hadn't done any updates, so I don't think it was Debian or
> Evolution doing this. I suspect Evolution (or somebody else) changed
> something in a .xyx directory or file, but I have no idea which one
> to delete — or if I'm expected to edit it I have no idea what to
> change.
> 
> How do I get Evolution working again?
> 
> My mail archive is MH format and I don't know if there's another way
> to read it other than as ugly plain text.
> 
> 

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