From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: If a user starts evolution and there is not a dbus-daemon dbus-launcher it just crashes at startup. For example it happens if you are in a session and make su - otheruser evolution Or if you start a graphical session that does not launch dbus-daemon for example xinit + twm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start a session that does not launch dbus-daemon or kill user's dbus-daemon 2. 3. Actual Results: Evolution crashes. Expected Results: In this case evolution should be able to start itself the daemon, shouldn't it? Additional info: Error messaging report as it crashes. It gives the following error report ###################################################### es menu class init adding hook target 'source' Failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Unable to determine the address of the message bus 2684: arguments to dbus_connection_get_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 4478. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-BUS library. 2684: arguments to dbus_connection_set_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 4442. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-BUS library. ** ERROR **: Not enough memory to set up DBusConnection for use with GLib aborting...
Thanks for this bug report. As a workaround, you may want to follow these instructions: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2005-June/msg00197.html
This sounds very similar to upstream bug #314598. (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314598)
And also to upstream bug #274329, which proposes a fix. (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274329)
Is this problem still present in Fedora Core 6?
It seems that the problem is solved in fedora 7
Cool, thanks for the update. Closing this.