Bug 444124 - "fatal error" starting Mail Notification
Summary: "fatal error" starting Mail Notification
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mail-notification
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dmitry Butskoy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-25 08:27 UTC by Braden McDaniel
Modified: 2008-04-28 15:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.3-1.fc9
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-28 15:56:43 UTC
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Description Braden McDaniel 2008-04-25 08:27:03 UTC
Description of problem:
Upon accessing the Mail Notification preferences, I get a dialog that says:

  A fatal error has occurred in Mail Notification

  The default configuration has not been installed properly. Please
  check your Mail Notification installation.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.2-3.fc9

Additional info:
I upgraded this system to Fedora 9 Preview from Fedora 8. Perhaps this is the
result of some crufty configuration file?

Comment 1 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-04-25 11:32:22 UTC
There was several such bugs already.

It seems that it is related to the changes of a way how mail-notifications deals
with Gnome. As a result, an old stuff (perhaps not removed completely at update
time) prevents the new instance of mail-notifications to run properly.

The probably work-around is to remove mail-notofications from the panel at all,
and add then again. Make sure that there are no more than 1 instances in
System-->Preferences-->Personal-->Sessions .

Please, report if it will not help you.


Comment 2 Thorsten Leemhuis 2008-04-25 11:39:40 UTC
Note: there was a bug in the gconf scriptles in %postun in the past that could
cause this problems. But I think I fixed that in F7 (or even earlier). Maybe I
did something wrong?

Comment 3 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-04-25 12:44:45 UTC
Hmmm... Where exactly?

BTW, there is no "if [$1 == "0"] ..." tests in %postun -- perhaps it is related
here?..


Comment 4 Braden McDaniel 2008-04-28 14:53:03 UTC
I have removed *all* instances of mail-notification from Sessions and ensured
the process isn't running. I still get the error message when attempting to
access the Mail Notification preferences.

Comment 5 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-04-28 15:24:49 UTC
Do you use mail-notofication-evolution-plugin as well?

I've compiled the new upstream release 5.3 (has appeared yesterday), try to
update to it (and evolution plugin if needed):
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/mail-notification/5.3/1.fc9/x86_64/


Comment 6 Braden McDaniel 2008-04-28 15:56:43 UTC
The 5.3 packages appear to fix the problem.


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