[Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup
Sean M. Alderman
sean.m.alderman@grc.nasa.gov
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:12:29 -0500
So where do we need to pust a bug for this problem at to get it
resolved? I'm gathering that this is not an Evolution issue.
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:51, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> you didn't have to reboot... rm -rf /tmp/orbit-$USER and then logout and
> back in again.
>
> tada.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:21, Ian Perryman wrote:
> > Well I just rebooted and it has cleared up. What a pain though..... I hope this is not something that will happen a lot. I thought regular reboots was only for Windoze.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean M. Alderman [mailto:sean.m.alderman@grc.nasa.gov]
> > Sent: October 24, 2003 3:14 PM
> > To: evolution@lists.ximian.com
> > Subject: RE: [Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup
> >
> >
> > 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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> > > Sean M. Alderman
> > > ITRACK Systems Analyst
> > > PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center
> > > (216) 433-2795
> > >
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> > (216) 433-2795
> >
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Sean M. Alderman
ITRACK Systems Analyst
PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center
(216) 433-2795
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them
over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall