Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.0.8 doesn't work after red-carpet urgent upgrade

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

It could possibly be gconf.  When it hangs, try getting a backtrace of
say evolution-mail (use gdb evolution-mail, 'run', then when it hangs
ctrl-c and 'thread apply all bt').

Using oaf-slay would normally let you kill everything without a reboot,
but killev *should* be killing those processes anyway.


On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 01:01, O'Connor, Paul (Galway) wrote:
> I have been successfully using evolution since early this year, and think it is a great product.  However, 
> a short while ago, I applied some "urgent" upgrades recommended by red-carpet, and Evolution doesn't work 
> any more.  I have completly removeed gnome and kde, and re-installed evolution 1.0.8 - but the problem 
> still exists.  I even went as far as installed Ximian Desktop, but I still can't get my emails.
>
> The problem manifests itself in a number of ways:
>
> 1) The evolution GUI won't display at all.  I found (by tinkering with killev), that the summary 
> applet/page was causing this problem.  If I killed it, the GUI displayed, and allowed me to pull down the 
> headings for all my emails.  The actual error I was seeing when I ran the modified killev was:
>
>       evolution-shell-WARNING **: Error changing interactive status of component 
>       OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Summary_ShellComponent to TRUE -- IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
>
> 2) While I can now see the heading for all of my emails, as soon as I try to open one, the GUI freezes.  
> This applies to both my local emails, and those on my Microsoft Exchange server.  Running killev will kill 
> MOST of the processes most of the time, but not sometimes not them all.  I usually end up with one or more 
> evolution-mail processes which CANNOT be killed.  This prevents me from accessing the emails alter.  The 
> only way of getting rid of these "unkillable" processes is to restart my system.  The following is an 
> example of what is left behind (ps -aef | grep -i evolution):
>
> poconnor  7895     1  0 Aug06 ?        00:00:00 evolution-mail 
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent --oaf-ior-fd=15
>
> > From what I remember, I think the upgrade to gconf may be the cause - this is the only thing I can think 
> > of that was related in any way to Evolution/Gnore etc.  But I cannot be sure about this.
>
> I am using SuSE 8.0 with Evolution 1.0.8
>
> I am cross-posting this to both the Evolution and Users mailing lists, since I have seen some cases in the 
> Users mailing list where a simliar problem is mentioned (although not exactly as above).  If I have posted 
> this to the wrong mailing-list, I apologise - can you tell me where to post it ?
>
> Can anyone help me ?
>
> Long live Evolution.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> evolution maillist  -  evolution ximian com
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution