On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:21 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Could you please start both applications in a terminal and show us the > output?
GNUCash generates no terminal output (until it starts it's graph layout engine, but that's irrelevant here), but Evolution shows the following:- $ evolution adding hook target 'source' (evolution:9075): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with NULL parameter. gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 aborting... This is if a gconfd-1 process is running when Evolution is started. > > The gconfd-2 package shouls override gconfd-1 where it is installed so > > that all gconf reliant apps start gconfd-2 in preference. Tagged as > > important as it breaks apparently unrelated software on the system, > > though it's relatively easy to work around once you realise what's > > happening. > > Unfortunately this isn't possible, as gconfd-1 and gconfd-2 are > incompatible. However they should be able to run together. When I was trying to track down what was happening here I tried to run both gconfd-1 and gconfd-2 together, but attempting to start gconfd-2 directly from a terminal fails if there's a running gconfd-1 already present. It doesn't generate any error messages, but after the prompt returns there is no gconfd-2 process. From running strace on the startup attempt I think this is due to contention for the orbit directory under /tmp, but I'm not certain. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]