Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.2.1 on RH8.0...

[Gerardo Marin <gerardo ximian com>]

Bill,

That problem usually arises from an old wombat still running after an
upgrade. Close Evolution, from a terminal run killev and oaf-slay. That
should solve the problem.

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 09:40, Bill Richards wrote:
> Hi-
>
>
> I'll try again here. I'm getting pretty frustrated with evo- I have
> yet to get a fully working version of this program on my machine at
> home. I tried 1.0.8 which cam with my RH8.0 distribution. I could read
> mail fine, but not compose, so that was useless. I used red-carpet to
> grab 1.2.1, and now I get the following:
>
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file oaf-activate.c: line 191 (oaf_activate):
> assertion `ac' failed.
>
> (Killing old version of Wombat...)
>
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file oaf-activate.c: line 191 (oaf_activate):
> assertion `ac' failed.
>
> (Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.)
>
> IDL:Bonobo/Moniker/UnknownPrefix:1.0
>
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file oaf-activate.c: line 191 (oaf_activate):
> assertion `ac' failed.
>
>
> evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on
> wombat: (IDL:Bonobo/Moniker/UnknownPrefix:1.0)
>
>
> Someone on the list did respond that I might be having problems with
> Mozilla libraries. Here's what I have:
>
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003,
> build 2002100313
>
>
> I looked through the archives and found some similar problems, but
> I've checked my paths, library pointers, etc. and it all looks OK.
>
>
> If this is a common problem, shouldn't this be addressed for dumb
> users like me? Using red-carpet I didn't have a clue what was being
> installed, what package dependencies were being resolved and how, etc.
> So I don't have a clue what's going on- hmmm- sounds familiar (kind of
> like dealing with MS apps?)
>
>
> Just my $0.02... evolution looks like an awesome app- I hope I can get
> it working...
>
>
> -wrr-
Gerardo Marin
Ximian Evolution Bugmaster