Bug 122948

Summary:	Evolution "Cannot access the Ximian Evolution Shell" x86_64 evolution-1.4.6-2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	taj <taj>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	taj
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58269
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Description taj 2004-05-10 17:43:07 UTC

Description of problem:

After upgrading several packages in the devel tree, evolution failed
to start.

A dialog box "Cannot access the Ximian Evolution Shell" was displayed.

Trying to run evolution-wombat generated:

/usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/evolution-wombat
wombat-Message: Starting wombat
wombat-pas-Message: Error registering the PAS factory: not listed
wombat-Message: main(): could not initialize Wombat service "PAS";
terminating

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


How reproducible:  Always if the account had previously run evolution.
 Never with new accounts.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  start evolution
2.  watch it fail with the above messages
3.
  
Actual results:

evolution dies

Expected results:

evolution runs.

Additional info:

backing up to evolution-1.4.6-1 did not solve the problem - though it
worked in the past. 

Bug also filed by mistake at
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58269

Comment 1 taj 2004-05-10 17:44:30 UTC

work around was to remove files and directories from /tmp.  For
instance with user test:

/tmp/orbit-test
/tmp/orbit-test/linc-896-0-4fc289545365b
/tmp/orbit-test/bonobo-activation-register.lock
/tmp/orbit-test/linc-898-0-7470689e9613d
/tmp/orbit-test/bonobo-activation-server-ior
/tmp/orbit-test/linc-89a-0-21e34e13aa63b
/tmp/orbit-test/linc-89c-0-5599b67ce42d3
/tmp/gconfd-test
/tmp/gconfd-test/lock
/tmp/gconfd-test/lock/ior


No problems after that.

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2004-09-22 18:18:32 UTC

Has this problem recurred, or should I close this bug?

Comment 3 taj 2004-09-23 05:13:06 UTC

Hi Dave,

I've since then moved on to evolution 1.5.  The bug is not being
reproduced at this time.

Comment 4 Dave Malcolm 2004-09-23 22:00:02 UTC

Thanks - perhaps a stale lockfile?  Not much more that can be done
with this unless it recurs for someone.  Resolving as WONTFIX here and
upstream