[Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup

Sean M. Alderman sean.m.alderman@grc.nasa.gov
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:13:48 -0400


Well interestingly enough when I ran into the panel applets crashing
with similar errors I thought hrrrm maybe it's not a evo thing.  I tried
doing an oaf-slay, but nothing happened.  Normally that will kill
nautilis, the panel, evolution and many other things, followed by
restarting the destkop components.  But this time Nothing.  :(

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:04, Ian Perryman wrote:
> I've got the same problem.  I discovered it when using VNC.  When I create new VNC windows with vncserver, each time I start it up, I get no applets and the following messages ... 
> 
>    There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
>    Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.
>    The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
>    GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
> 
> And when I tried to add the panel items, I got this message: 
> 
>    There was a problem loading applet 'OAFIID:GNOME_TasklistApplet'
>    Details: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'
> 
> I have been reluctant to end my main session, because the problem had not been encountered there yet, only the VNC sessions.  However, I tried to open up evo 1.4 in my main window and got this error:
> 
>    Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent :
>    The error from the activation system is:
>    Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'
> 
> Is this a gnome thing or an evolution thing?  So me thinks something is screwy.   Is there a way to reset or reload the oafd ?  
> 
> BTW, I am on RH 8.0 which is up to date (except the kernel which is 2.4.20-13.8)  via rcd, the version of evolution is 1.4.5
> 
> Regards,
> Ian Perryman
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean M. Alderman [mailto:sean.m.alderman@grc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: October 22, 2003 4:39 PM
> To: evolution@uptimecomputing.com
> Cc: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup
> 
> 
> Just to confirm that the poster is not on crack, I had the same issue
> today.  Although I produced it doing something else.  
> 
> I had signed up on a new mailing list and was creating a filter from the
> first message I received on the list (and thus a new folder).  When I
> tried to add the folder to my shortcut bar Evolution seemed to lock up. 
> The screen would paint, but clicking on folders menus or messages did
> nothing...the screen never changed.  I tried hitting the X on the
> window, but that did nothing, so I hopped over to a xterm and typed
> killev...well /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev.  Evolution was killed
> with out complaint.
> 
> I started evo back up only to find that I received the same errors as
> the poster.
> 
> Interestingly though, instead of rebooting (why does linux ever need
> rebooting), I just logged out of X and restarted the X server.  Upon
> loggin in, all of my panel applets were not functioning, and I was asked
> to delete them (which I said no).  I went on to fire up evo and got the
> same set of messages.  So this time I rebooted and all has been fine
> since.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 19:43, evolution@uptimecomputing.com wrote:
> > I hope this is the right list.  I recently updated evolution (5 days ago 
> > maybe?) and afterwards I received some corba exception errors.  I would 
> > click ok on about 5 errors and then Evolution would start, but it would not 
> > display any folder contents.  It would display the folder list on the left.  
> > After a reboot everything worked fine.  Just now it started happening again, 
> > and a reboot does not fix it.  I had clicked the clock on the taskbar 
> > (ximian desktop 2) and the month was showing with checkboxes for alarms 
> > within 15,30,45, etc minutes.  Before I escaped out of the calendar popup, I 
> > click the evolution icon.  Evolution started and I got the errors again for 
> > the first time since the original incident.  Then when I closed Evolution, I 
> > escaped out of the clock and it gave some corba exceptions also.  I rebooted 
> > and now the clock works fine, but evolution still errors.  I'm running 
> > redhat 9 with ximian desktop 2, all up to date with red carpet.  I tried the 
> > snapshot and development snapshot for Evolution but still the same.  Here 
> > are the errors: 
> > 
> > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent :
> > The error from the activation system is:
> > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' 
> > 
> > 
> > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent 
> > :
> > The error from the activation system is:
> > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' 
> > 
> > 
> > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_ShellComponent :
> > The error from the activation system is:
> > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' 
> > 
> > 
> > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Summary_ShellComponent :
> > The error from the activation system is:
> > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' 
> > 
> > 
> > Please help, thx.
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