Re: [Evolution] Bug in evolution-mail, debugging OAF components...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 26 Mar 2001 00:41:15 -0800, Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:
> Building (on PPC, when are you going to start pushing LinuxPPC binary  
> snaps?) from the 2001041917 snap, I get an error any time I send mail:
>
> I hit "Send", an error box appears, and says "Unable to send mail:
> Cannot parse URL: 'padding'".
>
> The mail appears to get sent anyways, so this is just annoying, not 
> fatal.


Sounds veyr annoying.

> My bigger question:
>
> I can figure out what's happening and fix if I can figure out how to 
> debug evolution-mail, which appears to be started from OAF and not by
> evolution proper. How do Ximian people debug evolution-mail? Do you 
> really gdb attach to the running process? That never appears to work for
> me (RedHat 6.2).


Its very simple, you just run evolution-mail separetely first, before
running evolution, i.e. in a debugger.  This will register the corba
component with oaf, and it wont try and start another one when you run
evolution, but talk to the existing object, etc.


> The Mozilla people wrote a handy document for debugging Mozilla. This
> kind of thing would be INCREDIBLY useful for Evolution users who can code.
> It will also be well worth the time spent writing it. 
>
>
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