Bug 17817 – Evolution: Could not create composer window:

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Danny 2003-03-19 08:15:19 UTC]

I have been running evolution 1.2 for the last couple of months, today when I
start the appication the following Error window is displayed:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent:
The error from the activation is:
Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occured
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

By then clicking OK evolution starts, however I cannot write or reply to any
emails i recieve as n error is then displayed, the below error appears
immediatly after clicking the New button: 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
COuld not create composer window:
Unable to activate address selector control.

The error from the activation system is: 
Child proces did not give an error message, unknown failure occured
---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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I am running gentoo 1.2 on an IBM t22 pentium3 laptop. Evolution 1.2 is the
first Evolution installation made on this machine, the system was fine untill
yesterday when after an emerge -u world seemed to break it. 
I have this morning re-emerged evolution this made no difference to the
application which is still in a broken state. 
Other than not being able to reply/write emails the appication seems fine. It
appears that any window which will invoke/tie into the addressbook dialogue will
fail.

Cheers, 
Danny

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-03-19 08:17:50 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17396 ***