I can second not having any luck with google. I actually didn't start having the problem until after upgrading from Gnome 1.4 to 2.2.
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:48, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > I'm surprised you didn't come across it in a google search as it has > been discussed hundreds of times on this list alone in the past few > years. > > no user-level (or developer-level docs, even) about this that I know of. > anyways, this ORBit (??) bug is supposedly fixed in GNOME 2.x land. > > Jeff > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 08:14, Ian Perryman wrote: > > Jeff, thanks for the info. > > > > When I went googling for this problem, I could not find solutions. When I checked > > with Google today, your solution did not come up. Perhaps it will take a day or > > two for google to catch up. It does not appear to be a frequent problem. If it > > happens again, is there something I should do to try and help diagnose the cause? > > > > What is interesting, is that I have not been using Evolution for mail for a couple > > of weeks now, and evolution was not running when I ran into this problem. I am > > not even sure I understand the relationships of all of the software that makes up > > Gnome and how to diagnose and fix problems such as the one I encountered. It > > seems that there are several services that Gnome provides to the applications. Is > > there any user level documentation on how this stuff is supposed to work, and what > > to do if it gets broken or out of sync? > > > > Ian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeffrey Stedfast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: October 24, 2003 5:52 PM > > To: Ian Perryman > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup > > > > > > you didn't have to reboot... rm -rf /tmp/orbit-$USER and then logout and > > back in again. > > > > tada. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:21, Ian Perryman wrote: > > > Well I just rebooted and it has cleared up. What a pain though..... I hope this > > > is not something that will happen a lot. I thought regular reboots was only for > > > Windoze. > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Sean M. Alderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: October 24, 2003 3:14 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: [Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup > > > > > > > > > Well interestingly enough when I ran into the panel applets crashing > > > with similar errors I thought hrrrm maybe it's not a evo thing. I tried > > > doing an oaf-slay, but nothing happened. Normally that will kill > > > nautilis, the panel, evolution and many other things, followed by > > > restarting the destkop components. But this time Nothing. :( > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:04, Ian Perryman wrote: > > > > I've got the same problem. I discovered it when using VNC. When I create new > > > > VNC windows with vncserver, each time I start it up, I get no applets and the > > > > following messages ... > > > > > > > > There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. > > > > Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work > > > > correctly. > > > > The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. > > > > GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. > > > > > > > > And when I tried to add the panel items, I got this message: > > > > > > > > There was a problem loading applet 'OAFIID:GNOME_TasklistApplet' > > > > Details: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' > > > > > > > > I have been reluctant to end my main session, because the problem had not been > > > > encountered there yet, only the VNC sessions. However, I tried to open up evo > > > > 1.4 in my main window and got this error: > > > > > > > > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent : > > > > The error from the activation system is: > > > > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' > > > > > > > > Is this a gnome thing or an evolution thing? So me thinks something is > > > > screwy. Is there a way to reset or reload the oafd ? > > > > > > > > BTW, I am on RH 8.0 which is up to date (except the kernel which is > > > > 2.4.20-13.8) via rcd, the version of evolution is 1.4.5 > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Ian Perryman > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Sean M. Alderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: October 22, 2003 4:39 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] corba exception on Evolution startup > > > > > > > > > > > > Just to confirm that the poster is not on crack, I had the same issue > > > > today. Although I produced it doing something else. > > > > > > > > I had signed up on a new mailing list and was creating a filter from the > > > > first message I received on the list (and thus a new folder). When I > > > > tried to add the folder to my shortcut bar Evolution seemed to lock up. > > > > The screen would paint, but clicking on folders menus or messages did > > > > nothing...the screen never changed. I tried hitting the X on the > > > > window, but that did nothing, so I hopped over to a xterm and typed > > > > killev...well /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev. Evolution was killed > > > > with out complaint. > > > > > > > > I started evo back up only to find that I received the same errors as > > > > the poster. > > > > > > > > Interestingly though, instead of rebooting (why does linux ever need > > > > rebooting), I just logged out of X and restarted the X server. Upon > > > > loggin in, all of my panel applets were not functioning, and I was asked > > > > to delete them (which I said no). I went on to fire up evo and got the > > > > same set of messages. So this time I rebooted and all has been fine > > > > since. > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I hope this is the right list. I recently updated evolution (5 days ago > > > > > maybe?) and afterwards I received some corba exception errors. I would > > > > > click ok on about 5 errors and then Evolution would start, but it would not > > > > > display any folder contents. It would display the folder list on the left. > > > > > After a reboot everything worked fine. Just now it started happening again, > > > > > and a reboot does not fix it. I had clicked the clock on the taskbar > > > > > (ximian desktop 2) and the month was showing with checkboxes for alarms > > > > > within 15,30,45, etc minutes. Before I escaped out of the calendar popup, I > > > > > click the evolution icon. Evolution started and I got the errors again for > > > > > the first time since the original incident. Then when I closed Evolution, I > > > > > escaped out of the clock and it gave some corba exceptions also. I rebooted > > > > > and now the clock works fine, but evolution still errors. I'm running > > > > > redhat 9 with ximian desktop 2, all up to date with red carpet. I tried the > > > > > snapshot and development snapshot for Evolution but still the same. Here > > > > > are the errors: > > > > > > > > > > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent : > > > > > The error from the activation system is: > > > > > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent > > > > > : > > > > > The error from the activation system is: > > > > > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_ShellComponent : > > > > > The error from the activation system is: > > > > > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Summary_ShellComponent : > > > > > The error from the activation system is: > > > > > Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please help, thx. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > -- > > > > Sean M. Alderman > > > > ITRACK Systems Analyst > > > > PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center > > > > (216) 433-2795 > > > > > > > > "Pascal is Pascal is Pascal is dog meat." -- M. Devine and P. Larson, > > > > Computer Science 340 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > -- > > > Sean M. Alderman > > > ITRACK Systems Analyst > > > PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center > > > (216) 433-2795 > > > > > > Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. -- Marcus > > > Aurelius > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Sean M. Alderman ITRACK Systems Analyst PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center (216) 433-2795 Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac (and nobody cares about it). -- Bill Joy 6/21/85 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
