Adding word to spell dictionary bug in evolution.

Lex Hider alexeijh at westnet.com.au
Mon Dec 6 20:06:37 CST 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:27 -0500, Brian Puccio wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 12:01 +1100, Lex Hider wrote:
> > can anyone confirm a bug I'm experiencing. Compose a mail in evolution
> > with a word not in dictionary [e.g. Ubuntu] and try to add it to
> > dictionary. Right-click add-to-dict causes an evolution crash.
> > Right-click check-spelling and then adding to dictionary causes all of
> > gnome to lock up and so I have to drop back to console and kill
> > evolution for things to work OK again.
> 
> I just tested this out with your email.  I went to reply to list,
> "Ubuntu" came up as not in the dictionary, I right clicked it and added
> it and my computer didn't skip a beat.  I also added another word in
> another email I'm writing now to a friend with your second method and I
> have no problems there either.
> 
> (Running warty, FWIW)
Weird!
I'm running warty with security updates.
I thought my setup may have got broken, so I created a new user, "test",
logged in as "test", fired up evolution, composed mail with text
"Ubuntu", right-click add-to-dict and crash!

I'm a little lost as to what to try next.

Lex.




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