Bug 101069

Summary: evolution fails to create default contents (Severn beta)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta Reporter: Elton Woo <elwoo>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Version: beta1CC: behdad, elwoo
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Description Elton Woo 2003-07-28 21:31:31 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703

Description of problem:
Select evolution from menu and start program
(first time or subsequent invocation).
Error message pops up, and after a while the
application loads, but does not contain any of
its default contents.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-1.4.3-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start evolution from menu
2. close error message, and wait for
3. program to load
    

Actual Results:  program throws up this error message:

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'

closing error dialog, the program contiunes to load, but
without it's default components (folders and other objects).


Expected Results:  program should load and create / show default
contents (folders, and other objects).

Additional info:

System: Athlon Thunderbird 1.0 Gb. Severn beta (RH 9.0.93)
kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13
kernel-utils-2.4-8.31
Video subsystem: 3D Labs (32 Mb) nVidia card
Viewsonic 17 monitor.

N.B. Nvidia drivers are NOT installed.

Comment 1 Elton Woo 2003-07-28 21:33:19 UTC
Created attachment 93203 [details]
screenshot of loaded application

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-07-28 21:44:15 UTC
Are you running in GNOME or KDE?  

Comment 3 Elton Woo 2003-07-28 22:03:34 UTC
The failure occurs in the Gnome desktop with Severn. Have not yet tried under KDE

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2003-07-28 22:08:49 UTC
Hmmm, and other GNOME apps start correctly?

Does anything odd show up in the terminal if you try to start evolution from there?

Comment 5 Elton Woo 2003-07-28 22:34:50 UTC
when started from a console prompt the same thing occurs. (See attachment). The
actual error pop-up is created as four instances stacked up on each other. The
console output is therefore:

$ evolution
 
(evolution:23620): evolution-shell-WARNING **: Could not start any startup wizard!
 
(evolution:23620): evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: file e-shell-startup-wizard.c:
line 781 (e_shell_startup_wizard_create): assertion `data->corba_wizard !=
CORBA_OBJECT_NIL' failed



Comment 6 Elton Woo 2003-07-28 22:35:33 UTC
Created attachment 93206 [details]
error dialog

Note the error dialog actually occurs *four* times, and has to be clicked that
many times for the splash screen to go away.

Comment 7 Jeremy Katz 2003-10-06 20:19:14 UTC
Do you still see this with test2?

Comment 8 Behdad Esfahbod 2003-11-05 13:59:23 UTC
I remember having the same problem with test2, but feel like it's gone
in test3.  Would someone verify?

Comment 9 Elton Woo 2003-11-06 18:43:20 UTC
This is fixed in Fedora Core Test 3, and (of course) in Fedora Core 1.
I respectfully submit that this bug be marked as closed.