Re: [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution!

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:04 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:56 +0100, Peter Barnes wrote:
> [...]
> > > If it is the Mailer component crashing, a common cause is a
> > >     particular mail that crashes while being rendered. To prevent
> > >     rendering of the mail, you can disable the preview pane and set the
> > >     message display to 'source', which will display the raw message.
> > >
> > >     Disable the preview pane:
> > >     $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/mail/display/show_preview --type bool 0
> > >
> > >     Display the raw source message:
> > >     $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/mail/display/message_style --type int 2
> >
> > Thanks for the help Andre. I tried the individual components and it
> > was the mail causing the problem.
> >
> > Then I disabled the preview pane and set the message display to
> > 'source' in the way you suggested. I could then open Evo without
> > getting a warning message. I tried opening all the mail messages from
> > the last download. All opened OK except the one at the top of my list
> > which I assume was the last one to download. When I clicked on this it
> > gave the dreaded warning message, so I closed and opened Evo again and
> > deleted it.
> >
> > This message, as I have mentioned elsewhere, was a press release from
> > a respectable German manufacturing company and I have opened and read
> > it on a Windows PC. The only things I could see that might be regarded
> > as potential trouble were the facts that it had an umlaut in the title
> > and that it had five attached files amounting to several MB in total
> > size. But surely Evo can cope with this? So perhaps it was nothing to
> > do with the message itself.
>
> Yes, it can. :)
>
> Neither of those facts seems to be the issue here. If you still have
> that mail somewhere, I'd like to have a look at it (if it does not
> contain sensitive data). The *raw* mail, that is.
>
>
> > When I now open Evo from the terminal I get:
> > adding hook target 'source'
> > (evolution:20813): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion
> > `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
> >
> > But in the past I always opened it from the desktop and so i don't
> > know if this message is normal or not.
>
> You simply can ignore almost all of that spewage.
>
>
> > Evo now works and I have all my mail - but when I click on New or on
> > Send/Receive it wants me to fill in all my account details as if I had
> > only just installed it.
> >
> > When I click on "New" I get the following in the terminal:
> > (evolution:20813): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion
> > `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> Unrelated, ignore it. :)
>
>
> > I guess I will have to go through filling in the forms again - but I
> > don't understand why it has lost the information. I did delete
> > the .evolution and .gconf/apps/evolution folders but I restored them
> > from a back-up.
>
> Not sure either, since your passwords are stored elsewhere [1], but if
> there has been an issue with the accounts since, Evo does not keep
> trying indefinitely, but re-asks for the passwords. Guess something
> along these lines happened for you.
>
> Just enter the passwords again and make sure the "remember" option is
> checked. You should not be prompted a second time for any (newly)
> provided password. HTH
>
> ...guenther
>
>
> [1] ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution

I just got a crash because of a mail. I don't use the preview pane, and
successfully viewed it in IMP. The attachment is a JPEG, about 400k in
size. I'm on 2.6.0, as you can see, installed from one of the SuSE 10.0
apt repositories. This is the first time I've had such a crash; however
2.6.0 is new to SuSE - I only installed it a week or so ago. No further
updates are available yet.

I can forward the message if it would help debug this. Just let me
know...


Des

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