[Evolution] Latest libbonobo breaks Evo 1.5.9.1

Thomas J. Baker tjb@unh.edu
Tue, 03 Aug 2004 09:34:17 -0400


On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:14 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> After updating my Fedora Core 2 system (using apt-get dist-upgrade) I 
> now find that Evo has broken. The skeleton of the Evo interface appears 
> but none of the components activate. I did a second upgrade on another 
> machine, one RPM at a time, and the culprit seems to be libbonobo. When 
> I run with CAMEL_DEBUG=1 I get this:
> 
> evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot activate component  
> OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_Component:1.5: Unknown CORBA exception id: 
> 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'
> 
> I'm using Evo 1.5.9.1, which is now a couple of months old, but since 
> there are no official packages for FC2 I've been using the ones at 
> http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/RPMS/, which haven't been updated in a 
> while.
> 
> Is there anything obvious I can do other than recompiling 36 modules 
> from CVS?
> 
> poc
> 
> PS I'm sure I'm not the only one using FC2. What are the rest of you doing?
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I had the same problem. No need to recompile or anything. Just log out
and from a console or something, make sure all your processes are gone.
(You may need to kill gconfd, evolution parts, etc.) When you've done
that, everything works again. Or you could just reboot...

tjb
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