# WebKitGTK, evolution, and bubblewrap

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/webkitgtk-evolution-and-bubblewrap/23242
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [November 14, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/webkitgtk-evolution-and-bubblewrap/23242 "2022-11-14T17:31:56Z")
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### Author: ![rsa4046](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/rsa4046/32/6772_2.png) [@rsa4046](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/rsa4046)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/webkitgtk-evolution-and-bubblewrap/23242/1 "2022-11-14T17:31:57Z")

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**Revised post:**

I made some progress in finding this origin of this problem, but am posting the original in case it helps others encountering `evolution` or `epiphany` issues. Apparently the problem described below is a issue with `WebKitGTK` (specifically `webkitgtk-2.38.2+abi=4.1`), and a recent patch of `bubblewrap` launcher’s [bind mounting of font locations](https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/31ac354cbeecf866f9a38f7b2f8f59f7975d3f6a), which doesn’t seem to work with the `/run/current-system/sw/share/fonts` symlink. See reference in this discussion of `Tangram` [here](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/197085#issuecomment-1306306658); `bubblewrap` reference is also [here](https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/issues/390). Am posting this anyway, just as reference.

**Original post** :

I’ve just switched to unstable, and have hit the following snag in trying to view mail messages in evolution, which opens a window as anticipated, but this error is displayed in place of the actual mail message:

```
Something has gone wrong when displaying the message
A WebKitWebProcess crashed when displaying the message. You can try again by moving to another message and back. If the issue persists, please file a bug report in GNOME GitLab.

```

Starting evolution from a terminal captures these errors every time I attempt to open a message (regardless of whether I use `plasmawayland` as `displayManager` or not):

```
bwrap: Can't mkdir parents for /run/current-system/sw/share/fonts: No such file or directory

```

However, using hints from [this post](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-use-gnome-online-accounts/18997/4) and invoking evolution with `env WEBKIT_FORCE_SANDBOX=0` allows messages to be opened successfully without errors (at least none seen at the terminal).

Below are what I think are the relevant parts of my `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`, which worked fine on 22.05, but not on 22.11, including the only parts of gnome I’ve declared. I don’t know enough about `WebKitWebProcess` to understand where the problem lies. ~~Has anyone else hit this snag, or have an idea what I should change?~~

```auto
{ config, pkgs, callPackage, ... }:{
# ... <snip>
  services = {
    gnome = {
      evolution-data-server.enable = true;
      gnome-keyring.enable = true;
      gnome-settings-daemon.enable = true;
    };
    xserver = {
      enable = true;
      layout = "us";
      videoDrivers = ["amdgpu"];
      desktopManager.plasma5 = {
        enable = true;
        supportDDC = true;
      };
      displayManager = {
        defaultSession = "plasmawayland";
        sddm = {
          enable = true;
        };
      };
    };
  };
# ... <snip>
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
# ... <snip>
    evolution-ews
    gnome.adwaita-icon-theme
    gnome.gnome-keyring
    nerdfonts
# ... <snip>
  ];
# ... <snip>
  fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [
    iosevka
    noto-fonts
    fira-code
    vistafonts
    corefonts
    lmodern
    cm_unicode
  ];
  programs.evolution.enable = true;
# ... <snip>
  system.stateVersion = "22.05"; # Did you read the comment?
}

```