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
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.
Has this problem recurred, or should I close this bug?
Hi Dave, I've since then moved on to evolution 1.5. The bug is not being reproduced at this time.
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