Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 2/28/07, Ryan Sims <rwsims@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/28/07, Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >    I've got a machine that will no longer run Evolution. For whatever
> > > > reason all versions of Evolution in Portage crash. I cannot as of yet
> > > > get a backtrace to determine why.
> > >
> > > I'm using evolution-2.8.2.1 and it works fine; can you post your "emerge
> > > --info" ?
> >
> > If you're interested then sure. I'm running evolution-2.8.2.1 on a
> > couple of machines with no problems at all. It's only on his machine
> > and only since upgrading to Gnome 2.16.
> >
> [emerge --info snipped]
> >
> > Here are the only errors in a terminal when it crashes. It crashes in
> > all accounts on the system so it's not something specific to my dad's
> > setup.
> >
> > mark@gandalf ~ $ evolution
> >
> > (evolution-2.8:16011): evolution-mail-WARNING **: cannot load
> > vfolders: Unable to load system rules
> > '/usr/share/evolution/2.8/vfoldertypes.xml': Success
> >
> >
> > (evolution-2.8:16011): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_layout_set_hadjustment:
> > assertion `GTK_IS_LAYOUT (layout)' failed
> >
> > (evolution-2.8:16011): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_layout_set_vadjustment:
> > assertion `GTK_IS_LAYOUT (layout)' failed
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:16026): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Bonobo
> > Component Browser
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:16026): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder
> > Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
> > mark@gandalf ~ $
>
>
> Grasping at straws, but I found this:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-evolution-maintainers/2006-September/001441.html
>
> Try running evolution with the --sm-disable option?  It's not a fix, I
> know, but it might help.  An evolution --help might shed some light on
> what --sm-disable does, if it works.  (I'd check myself, but I'm not
> in front of a linux box right now.)
>
>
> --
> Ryan W Sims

Ryan,
   Hi. Thanks for the idea. Tried it. As of earlier this morning it
was still the same problem. From the help info:

--sm-disable                   Disable connection to session manager

   I tried a few other options but no help. At the time it still
crashed the same way. Of course, that was at the time.

   In the background I'm doing an emerge -e world. The rebuild is
about 50% of the way through. Apparently something needed to be
rebuilt because now Evolution is starting up just fine. No GTK
messages. No problems. Opens fine and seems to work.

   Do not have any idea yet what helped but something did.

Thanks,
Mark
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