Re: [Evolution] Evolution 0.10 branch on Solaris

[Laszlo Peter <Laszlo Peter ireland sun com>]

Hi,

On 1 May 2001, JP Rosevear wrote:

> On 01 May 2001 10:43:17 +0100, Laszlo Peter wrote:
> > 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.

This problem is still there. If you have a netscape preference file but
you don't have a "mail.directory" entry in it then it just keeps looping
forever.

> > 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.

I rebuilt evolution yesterday with the latest oaf and ORBit and it starts
perfectly this time. (-:

Cheers,

Laca