Re: Evolution still isn't working

[Dave Collett <jg webone com au>]

Works for me, thanks Ronald.
I deviated slightly from your instructions by also deleting the .[ch]
files as instructed in previous posts since I wasnt sure if they'd be
regenerated or not.

Dave



On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:34, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:
> I have attached a patch which should fix some of the problems.  Even
> yours looks like a idl compile issue. Make sure orbit-idl-2 can generate
> these files (*common* *skels* *stubs*).
> My problem was that evolution would start but calendar and Summary would
> fail, do to a bug in the wombat idl. 
> Steps to get it working:
> apply the attached patch
> run <make clean> in the evolution top source dir.
> run <make>
> run <make install>
> run evolution
> 
> It should (good luck) work, also 1.4.4 still seems to have more bugs
> than the old 1.2.4. So don't forget to backup your mail and calendar
> data before running 1.4.4.
> Hope this helps,
> Ronald
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:04, Bob Kashani wrote:
> > I got errors about missing files... :(
> > 
> >      -I/home/gnome2/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include  -g
> > -I/home/gnome2/garnome/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > -L/home/gnome2/garnome/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -O2 -pipe
> > -march=athlon-tbird -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes
> > -Wmissing-declarations  -c Evolution-Wombat-common.c
> > cc: Evolution-Wombat-common.c: No such file or directory
> > cc: no input files
> > make[3]: *** [Evolution-Wombat-common.o] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> > `/mnt/hde1/home/gnome2/garnome-0.26.2-bob/gnome/evolution/work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4/wombat'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/mnt/hde1/home/gnome2/garnome-0.26.2-bob/gnome/evolution/work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/mnt/hde1/home/gnome2/garnome-0.26.2-bob/gnome/evolution/work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4'
> > make: *** [build-work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4/Makefile] Error 2
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:41, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > To solve this problem:
> > > 
> > > enter the evolution folder.
> > > run 'make clean && make install'
> > > After the evolution tarball has been extracted and as configure starts
> > > type CTRL-c to interrupt the build.
> > > 
> > > run the following commands:
> > >         cd work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4/
> > >         rm wombat/Evolution-Wombat-*.[hc]
> > >         rm libwombat/Evolution-Wombat-*.[hc]
> > >         autoconf
> > >         cd ../../..
> > > 
> > > resume the make with 'make install'
> > > 
> > > This should make evolution work.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 04:38, Boris Goldowsky wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >  
> > > > >
> > > -- 
> > > "Some Australians have, I fear, become desensitised to habitual
> > > government dishonesty. I'm not one of them."
> > > 
> > >                                     -- Andrew Wilkie, Former ONA analyst
> > -- 
> > Bob Kashani