Re: [Evolution] Broken Tasks, Calendar, and Contacts. Introduction as well

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

Christian Pearce <pearcec PacketPushers com> writes:

> I couldn't even get it to run as myself so I tried another user real
> quick.
>
> [root insight lpd]# cat /tmp/evolution 
> Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
>              Falling back on Shared XImages
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
>              Falling back on XImages
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
>              Falling back on Shared XImages
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
>              Falling back on XImages
>
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
>              Falling back on Shared XImages
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
>              Falling back on XImages
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
>              Falling back on Shared XImages
> IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
>              Falling back on XImages
>
> [pearcec3 insight /tmp]$ evolution-calendar    
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> [pearcec3 insight /tmp]$ evolution-addressbook 
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Hmmm.  Your kernel seems to have run out of shared memory segments.
Can you restart your X session and try again?

Newer versions of GTK+ fix this problem by creatint a single big
segment per client instead of four little ones.

Things should still not crash even if shm is not available, though...

  Federico