Comment 33 for bug 359658

Ok, this is very frustrating. I reported this identical behavior here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/424099

"Apport retracing service" reported the following:

> "This crash has the same stack trace characteristics as bug #359658.
> However, the latter was already fixed in an earlier package version
> than the one in this report. This might be a regression or because
> the problem is in a dependent package."

So, does the phrase "already fixed in an earlier package version" mean something different on Launchpad than it would pretty much anywhere else? What am I missing here? Because a few days later it was marked as a duplicate of this bug. Is it the same bug, and was simply never fixed? Was the info about it being fixed simply wrong?

Also, to add to the symptoms, I have definitely determined over the past month that, in my case anyways, Evolution *only* crashes when a) vlc is running, and b) a new email comes in. I tried turning off the notifier applet to see if that helped, but it still crashes randomly under those circumstances. It is usually within 30-45 minutes that it crashes, although of course that is dependent on whether or not I actually get an email in that timeframe. Sometimes apport generates a report on the crash, sometimes not.

Can anyone else confirm that they are experiencing the same symptoms? Or can anyone else say that they definitely do not have vlc and yet still get this issue?

I am available to help test, if someone wants to give me a scenario to set up, if it will help.