Re: Evolution still isn't working

[Boris Goldowsky <boris alum mit edu>]

Tried this, using cvs checkout as shown below.  No joy.  Built fine, but 
when run:

[bc yuff evolution]$ evolution

Bonobo-ERROR **: Attempt to instantiate non-Bonobo/Unknown derived 
object via. BonoboObject
aborting...

Bng


Dan Siemon wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 01:46, William Lovaton wrote:
>  
>
> > Since 0.26.1 Evolution keeps crashing on startup. 
> > This was reported before and no body has an answer
> > about it.  I got the following message:
> >
> > [william lovaton william]$ evolution-1.4
> >
> > (evolution-1.4:2680): evolution-shell-CRITICAL **:
> > file e-storage-set.c: line 639
> > (e_storage_set_get_folder): assertion
> > `g_path_is_absolute (path)' failed
> >
> > Bonobo-ERROR **: Attempt to instantiate
> > non-Bonobo/Unknown derived object via. BonoboObject
> > aborting...
> > Trace/breakpoint trap
> >
> >
> > What is happening here? is there a solution to make it
> > work?  This is something very bad, I need my mail back
> > :-(
> >    
>
> I believe this is the result of some ORBit changes. The Evolution
> tarballs are including files that should be auto-generated.
>
> If you pull the latest evolution from the evolution-1-4-branch and build
> it into your garnome directory everything will work fine. The Garnome
> Makefile for evolution contains the configure options you need to pass
> [1].
>
> The CVS command to pull from a branch looks like:
> cvs -z3 checkout -r evolution-1-4-branch evolution
>
> For those completely new to pulling sources from CVS you will need to
> run ./autogen.sh with the arguments you would normally pass to
> configure.
> 	Dan
> [1] - I also needed --with-krb5=/usr/kerberos on RH9.
>
>