Re: [Evolution] Evolution 0.10 branch on Solaris

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 01 May 2001 10:43:17 +0100, Laszlo Peter wrote:
> Hi evolution hackers,
>
> I built evolution from the evolution-0-10-branch of 'Fri Apr 27 00:00:01 PDT 2001'
> on Solaris 8. It built out of the box. (-:
>
> It came up but the mail component was not started. )-:
> When trying to run evolution-mail first and then evolution in a separate window
> it hangs after cycling through the splash screen.
> Running evolution-mail in gdb we've found that it was trying to read the netscape
> preferences in an infinite loop and failed to detect the end of the file.
>
> After applying this fix:

I'll let iain deal with this one.
 
> Even after applying the above patch, evolution would not start the evolution-mail
> component.  It works if I start the mail component in a separate window before
> running evolution.  It does this in both my Linux and Solaris builds.

I have exactly the same behaviour on the Sun machines here at work.  My
suspicion (although I have little proof) is that this is an oaf problem,
specifically a race condition related to the fact that multiple oafd's
are started on Solaris.  I'm waiting to see what mjs comes up with in
this regard.

-JP
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