FS#1995 - Evolution Setup Assistant fails

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai) - Saturday, 08 January 2005, 21:29 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 20:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 40%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

evolution 2.0.3-1

When started the first time, evolution runs the Evolution Setup Assistant. After entering the information (right after selecting a timezone and pressing Forward), evolution freezes, hogging 99% CPU, and it responds only to kill -9
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Stephan Schermuly (cybe) - Sunday, 09 January 2005, 17:56 GMT
my first entry here. sorry for my bad english.
same problem here. problem exists since the end of december (ca. 27 dec) after i upgraded my system with pacman -Syu. dont know all the packages exactly which were updatet but evolution stopped working. i always get the evolution setup wizard and then evolution hangs as described after pressing the forward button with 99% CPU. no matter if i have my /home/.../.evolution directory or not. tried a lot of things -> deleting my evolution directory, deleting gconf evolution entries reinstalling the whole system and so on. nothing solved the problem. think it's a package thing. hoping for a solution ;)
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 14:02 GMT
please add a new user, log into X as that user and see if it still hangs. I cannot reproduce this here.
Comment by Stephan Schermuly (cybe) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 19:42 GMT
i have added a user "test" logged into X as that user and started evolution-2.0. it still hangs after completing the setup wizard as described in my last post.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 20:07 GMT
Hrm, this does happen to me also using a new user account. Have you looked for an open bug on Ximian's bugzilla about this?
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 20:54 GMT
seems to be a gtk 2.6 problem. you could temporarily downgrade to 2.4 to create your account, then reupgrade - it works fine after the first setup.
Comment by Stephan Schermuly (cybe) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 22:00 GMT
thx a lot dale. you are absolutely right. it was a gtk 2.6 problem. after downgrading to gtk 2.4.x and libglade 2.4.x i have completet the evolution setup wizard and evolution loaded. after that i upgraded gtk and libglade back to the current versions and all is working now. i'm a happy arch user again, after evolution stopped working end of december. sorry for my bad english again and thank you, nice support :)
Comment by Stephan Schermuly (cybe) - Monday, 10 January 2005, 22:11 GMT
back again... it did not last long. after i rebootet my system the setup wizard starts up again, instead of loading evolution. after completing the wizard it hangs again. hmmm...
Comment by Tor Krill (tor) - Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 19:47 GMT
There are bug entries at ximians bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=70692
Comment by Stephan Schermuly (cybe) - Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 20:37 GMT
thx for this info... downgraded to gtk 2.4 at the moment and everything's running. don't know if many arch users have simular problems with gtk 2.6 or 2.6.1 and evolution and other apps. if so maybe a good idea to downgrade to gtk 2.4 till the problems are solved by the gtk people...
Comment by Benoit C (benoitc) - Sunday, 23 January 2005, 20:34 GMT
There is a patch for gtk here :
http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/frugalware-current/source/gnome/gtk+2/00-gtk+-2.6.1-gtk_dialog_map-do-not-loop-forever.patch
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 19:28 GMT
it seems like jgc patched this in gtk2. Does it work for you now ?
Comment by Stephan Schermuly (cybe) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 22:37 GMT
it works for me now. it worked after i did what i described in this forum thread @ the archlinux forums:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=9179

i never had any problems again since then.
thanks for your answers and tips. :)

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