Re: [Evolution] Newly installed 1.4.6 crashes during startup

["Piotr Romanus" <promanus nortelnetworks com>]

The problem turned out to be the new version of gtk. I did the upgrade using the red-carpet and the red-carpet upgraded gtk from 2.0.0 to 2.2.0 (I have to admit that I was not paying attention). This made X a bit unstable. Most apps would run but some were crashing (OpenOffice). To fix the problem I had to upgrade libgnomeui from 2.0.3-3 to 2.2.0.1-0.ximian.5.8. Now everything works fine. 

So evolution is probably not at fault. The only thing that worries me is the red-carpet update: how did I ended up upgrading the gtk version without asking for it? Since I can't remember what was the upgrade list presented during installation however, I can't blame anybody but myself...

Let me know if you are still interested in any aspects of this problem. I will be glad to help.


Piotr Romanus


On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 21:01, Not Zed wrote:

I presume this is remote X?

I think you've probably hit a gtk issue, not an evolution one.  Do other gtk apps work fine?

Can yuou get a backtrace? (attach to bug).

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:03 -0400, Piotr Romanus wrote:

For some reason this message did not show up in the list even though I 
sent it yesterday:

I just installed 1.4.6 using red-carpet on RH 8.0. Every time I try to 
run the new evolution, it crashes with the following output from the xterm:

(evolution:4710): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of 
abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'

(gnome_segv:4711): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
module_path: "bluecurve",

(gnome_segv:4711): Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER 
support is present,
but fails to supply the necessary pixmap support.  In
other words, it is buggy.

I submitted a bug report # 56839 but I wonder is there anything I can do 
to get it to work? Is there any way to come back to the old version? 
Evolution is my primary mailer...

Any help greatly appreciated.

Piotr Romanus
jromanus earthlink net

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