[Evolution-users] Recover from broken WebKit?

[Tim McConnell]

On Mon, 2025-11-03 at 21:10 +0000, van snyder via evolution-users
wrote:
> "When you run Evolution from a terminal, you might see some message
> (possibly printed by the WebKitWebProcess itself), with a reason of
> the crash. A backtrace of the crash would also help."
> 
> Evolution itself doesn't crash. It just refuses to do anything
> useful, blaming its failure on WebKit:
> 
> "A WebKitWebProcess crashed when displaying the message."
> 
> The "Table of Contents" pane "works" but all I can do is delete
> messages.
> 
> I ran it with no command-line options. Nothing on XTerm about WebKit:
> 
> (org.gnome.Evolution:3294818): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:01:19.806: Only
> strings supported after ':': \xe9: <Multi_key> <e> <apostrophe> :
> \xe9
>  
> (org.gnome.Evolution:3294818): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:01:19.806: Only
> strings supported after ':': \xe9: <Multi_key> <grave> <e> : \xe9
>  
> (org.gnome.Evolution:3294818): evolution-util-WARNING **:
> 13:01:27.405: Nonsensical (103% complete) reported on activity
> "Fetching summary information for new messages in âSbcglobal : INBOXâ
> 
> Should I add some command-line options to get it to tell me more?

Doing a search for "how to rollback a failed upgrade in Debian" brought
me to here: https://wiki.debian.org/RollbackUpdate. It's not for the
faint of heart. Some other steps to try:
1.Check the logs for the previous version of the webkit packages and
see if you can remove the updated ones and install the previous
versions

2.Attempt to re install the new packages for webkit.

3. Follow Debian's wiki and file a bug against one of the webkit
packages and wait for a fix (I'd mention the other Webkit packages in
the bug report) Reportbug is easy to follow.