Evolution repeatably crashing when selecting text in long quoted plain text email
I have a plain text email in my inbox, it's a little over 500 lines long and has has a quotes 4 levels deep. Whilst composing a reply, if I highlight text (I can trigger it highlighting a single character, in a quote 3-4 levels deep) from approximately half way down the email (it doesn't seem to happen at the beginning or end of the email) and let the composing window lose focus, evolution crashes with the following message being displayed when run from the command line:
(evolution:258301): GLib-ERROR **: 10:18:15.234: ../../../glib/gmem.c:108: failed to allocate 18446744073709549885 bytes
Trace/breakpoint trap
The exact number of bytes varies but it's always in this ballpark :-)
Broken configurations
- Evolution 3.36.1-1, as shipped in Debian Testing, on gnome-shell, compiled for x86_64.
Working configurations
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Evolution 3.36.1-1, as shipped in Debian Testing, on gnome-shell, compiled for x86_64, when run with
GDK_BACKEND=x11 evolution
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Evolution 3.30.5-11, as shipped in Debian Buster, on gnome-shell, compiled for x86_64.