Re: [Evolution] Huge problems with evo snapshot

[Scott Barnes <reeve ductape net>]

On 23 Jan 2001 16:02:12 +0100, Fred RISS wrote:
> Hi,
> First of all, let me congratulate all the team for the great work ! I use it for 5 months now and it 
> becomes really better every day. But now, I'm experiencing some (huge) problems with today's evo snapshot. 
> I use the Debian snapshot packages on a Debian unstable box. 
> There are two issues :
> - I had 3 identities set on the same mail source (local mbox)... And that made Evo crash every time I 
> grabed my mails. Now, I've deleted 2 of these identities, and everything seemed to work good until I 
> realized that Evolution lost some mails !! There is no error message, the mail disapears from the local 
> storage, but it never gets into my Inbox. For example, when I send myself a message on my box (I use my own 
> mail server for sending), it comes into /var/spool/mail/fred (which is my local storage) but evo trashes it 
> somewhere when getting mail...
> - I'm forced to send this mail with mutt, because Evo don't want to open the composer window. I know this 
> has already been discussed here, and seemed to get fixed for some people by using the snapshots, but I use 
> the snapshots and get this error message when hiting the compose button (of course I get the dialog box 
> saying 'can't create composer window) :
>
> Bonobo-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL for app evolution-message-composer
>
> Bonobo-WARNING **: Activating 'OAFIID:Bonobo_Moniker_Oaf' returned nothing
>
> Bonobo-CRITICAL **: file bonobo-moniker-util.c: line 502 (bonobo_moniker_client_resolve_default): assertion 
> `moniker != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL' failed.
>
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1179 (gtk_object_unref): assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed.


It's because the Debian snapshot package of Oaf is screwed up, I think
they used HEAD instead of oaf-stable-0-6.
Just downgrade to Oaf 0.6.1 or build it yourself from CVS using the
oaf-stable-0-6 branch.


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