Re: [Evolution] Error on startup -- FIXED

[David Sims <david simscomputing com>]

On 26 Apr 2001 11:00:49 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> did you also try killev, oaf-slay, etc?

I did try killev and oaf-slay. Curiously, oaf-slay could not be found. I
know I used to have it on my system.

So, I did "apt-get install oaf" and oaf-slay magically reappeared. I ran
it and then Evolution. Success! (nice new splash screen with the
sunglasses, btw :-)

I'm composing this from the 25Apr2001 Evolution snapshot fetched with
Red Carpet. Nice!

So, in case it helps anyone, if your oaf-slay is no longer in /usr/bin,
the upgrade process may have inadvertently removed the oaf package. Must
reinstall oaf.

Thanks again!
David


> On 25 Apr 2001 18:35:26 -0600, David Sims wrote:
> > I have the very latest Ximian Gnome 1.4 and Red Carpet 1.0.
> > About 30 minutes ago, I installed the packages from the Evolution
> > snapshot channel (which just made an appearance, it would seem).
> > So, I'm up to date. All on Debian Potato.
> >
> > On startup, I get this printed to the console:
> >
> > ** CRITICAL **: file oaf-activate.c: line 279 (oaf_activate_from_id): assertion `ac' failed.
> >
> > And a popup dialog says, "Cannot initialize the Evolution shell."
> >
> > If I run evolution-mail, it just says, "Cannot initialize Evolution's mail
> > component."
> >
> > The archives said to "rm /tmp/orbit-*", which I did. No change.
> > Of course, everything worked fine with Evo 0.8, but after upgrading
> > to Ximian Gnome 1.4, I had to upgrade Evo too.
> >
> > Any clues? (sending this from mutt :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David