Re: [Evolution] Newly installed 1.4.6 crashes during startup

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I presume this is remote X?

I think you've probably hit a gtk issue, not an evolution one.  Do other gtk apps work fine?

Can yuou get a backtrace? (attach to bug).

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:03 -0400, Piotr Romanus wrote:
> For some reason this message did not show up in the list even though I 
> sent it yesterday:
>
> I just installed 1.4.6 using red-carpet on RH 8.0. Every time I try to 
> run the new evolution, it crashes with the following output from the xterm:
>
> (evolution:4710): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of 
> abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'
>
> (gnome_segv:4711): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
> module_path: "bluecurve",
>
> (gnome_segv:4711): Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER 
> support is present,
> but fails to supply the necessary pixmap support.  In
> other words, it is buggy.
>
> I submitted a bug report # 56839 but I wonder is there anything I can do 
> to get it to work? Is there any way to come back to the old version? 
> Evolution is my primary mailer...
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Piotr Romanus
> jromanus earthlink net
>
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