Alas, FC4 is quite unstable now. Yesterday I've enabled DBUS messaging in Evolution, then it's always crasing. I sent the bugreport to the Gnome guys, I hope they'll fix it as soon as possible. Now, I don't know how can I disable because Evo is always crashing at the startup... :(

kmail

Today I reread this post. Nowadays I'm using kmail because of it's wonderful eGroupWare plugin.
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Fehér János aka Aries

Solution

The gentoo forum hint is useful, it works for me. Thanks for the hotfix guys!

evolution and d-bus

run the following, taken fro the gentoo forum

gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/mail/notify/gen_dbus_msg --type boolean false

Evolution crash after dbus enabled

You can start evolution using the --disable-eplugin option, which will at least let you read yor mail.

MAke sure you install dbus-x11

Make sure you have the dbus-x11 package installed, otherwsie dbus doesn't get enabled in the X environment. Then evolution DBUS works fine. And the key to getting evolution to not crash is to QUICKLY click on a mailbox w/ no messages. (ie outbox) before it crashes..

or just run

dbus-launch evolution.

HOWTO Diasable D-bus

Hey Aries, thanks for your blog. Because of it I realized that I had enabled this setting and that this was the reason Evolution kept crashing. I disabled the setting via gnome configuration editor, goto evolution->mail->notify and disable gen_dbus_msg. Good luck. If you do not use gnome I guess that there must be a setting in the .evolution folder. I can have a look if you want me to.

Best,
Machiel (vdbijl at cs.utwente.nl)

Please look for it

If you have time it would be nice if you find a solution. Please tell me if you know a hotfix against this!
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Fehér János aka Aries

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