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braincenter

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[Solved] Evolution Crashes on Edit Preferences

When I try to do an Edit/Preferences in Evolution, the program crashes. It worked before the latest update.

Here is the command line output. I would appreciate a fix.

** (evolution:6892): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s
** (evolution:6892): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution

(evolution:6892): camel-CRITICAL **: camel_object_is: assertion `o != NULL' failed

(evolution:6892): evolution-mail-CRITICAL **: mail_tools_folder_to_url: assertion `CAMEL_IS_FOLDER (folder)' failed
e-data-server-ui-Message: Received a password from keyring 'default'. But looking for the password from 'login' keyring

**
GConf:ERROR:gconf-client.c:1202:gconf_client_key_is_writable: assertion failed: (entry != NULL)
Aborted

Last edited by braincenter (2009-05-12 13:11:35)

ngoonee

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Re: [Solved] Evolution Crashes on Edit Preferences

Search (and Google) are your friends. This happened to me, a quick search led me to this thread. Basically, you can downgrade gconf (and metacity/policykit-gnome), or you can try to manually edit your gconf as indicated towards the end of the thread.

Remember, search (and Google) are your friends.

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tuxce

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Re: [Solved] Evolution Crashes on Edit Preferences

for evolution, it's those 3 keys (same as nautilus, no schema provided):

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/evolution/mail/composer/magic_smileys false
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/evolution/mail/composer/reply_start_bottom false
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/evolution/mail/composer/top_signature false

You can change in the edit/preferences/composer windows.

Last edited by tuxce (2009-05-12 09:49:50)

braincenter

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Re: [Solved] Evolution Crashes on Edit Preferences

The latest update of gconf 2.26-1-2 (on 5-12-2009) seems to have fixed this issue. I am now able to change preferences in Evolution.

I did not have to downgrade the packages. I did not do the gconf edits as suggested previously in this thread.

I am marking this problem solved.

Last edited by braincenter (2009-05-12 13:17:44)