[Evolution-users] evolution crashes when attechments are opened

[Pete Biggs]

> 
> But out of a sudden, I cannot open attachments just by clicking on
> them. Whether HTML or PDF, evolution disappaes without a warning and
> must be restarted.
> 
> When I open the list of attachments and use a right click, I can open
> them with firefox, my favorite browser (and the first application shown
> as an option). But a left clicks destroys evolions
> 
> What steps do I have to do to locate and correct the error?

As well as the info Paul mentioned, the GUI you are using (Gnome or KDE
or ...) might be useful.

You should also run Evolution from the command line to see if it shows
any errors.

Ultimately the attachments are opened using the XDG system.  So can you
open a pdf on your filesystem using a command such as 

    xdg-open file.pdf

and if you want to see what application is defined for PDFs then do 

    xdg-mime query default application/pdf

or for html files

    xdg-mime query default text/html

P.