Re: [Evolution] very odd problem with evolution

[Gary Koskenmaki <garyk1953 charter net>]

Thank you.  

I hadn't gone into that part of preferences for a long time, years, and
had never seen the options before or I would have tried them.  I had to
use base to get wireless to work.  If I start evolution from a bash
prompt it still throws the error but at least it works.  It was set to
default, whatever that is in Devuan using XFCE4.  

I really appreciate your help. 

On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 09:34 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 11:48 -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> > But now it immediately reports it is offline...
>
>       Hi,
> evolution relies on glib with this, and it relies on other parts of
> the
> system, it can be inet, or NetworkManager or maybe other. I guess
> some
> update broke this for you. Go to Edit->Preferences->Network
> Preferences
> and pick the working online detection method there, instead of using
> environment variable. I'd also check NetworkManager settings and
> eventually ensure that the used method is NetworkManager (if it's
> used
> in your system at all). NetworkManager can have disabled
> notifications,
> I can see such option in a context menu of the connection icon in the
> system tray/status panel. I do not use XFCE, maybe it's there or
> somewhere else.
>
> > ... but reports the following error: (evolution:16814): Gtk-
> > WARNING **: 11:29:22.179: Failed to register client:
> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method
> > "RegisterClient" with signature "ss" on interface
> > "org.xfce.Session.Manager" doesn't exist
>
> I do not think it's related to the networking itself. gtk+ expects
> that
> the desktop environment provides certain D-Bus service with certain
> API, which did not work for your XFCE desktop. You can ignore these.
>
> > I've considered just doing a fresh install ....
>
> I do not think it would help, especially if the fresh install would
> bring the same updated packages.
>
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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