Have just installed Gentoo on a new computer. When I tryed to start evolution it refuses to start, giving me the message "Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell" It works fine on other mashines I have, so I guess it must be unfofilled dependencyes. I have already tryen to emerge oaf (some pages on the internet suggested it) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge evolution 2.log in as normal user 3.evolution
try starting it from a terminal and see if there are any messages. also include the output of "emerge info"
Sorry I did not include that at once... $ evolution (evolution:4145): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. file /home/sveinung/evolution/vfolders.xml contains nothing to upgrade file /home/sveinung/evolution/vfolders.xml contains nothing to upgrade evolution-shell-Message: Evolution configuration upgraded to version: 1.4.0 (Killing old version of Wombat...) From emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups doc dvb dvd encode esd evo flac flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagic imlib jabber java jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_nb linguas_nn linguas_no mad maildir memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype trutype unicode usb videos wmf wxwindows x86 xinema xml xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib"
I should also mention that I dont have Gnome installed. (portage did'nt install it)
wondering if this bug is still around? have you tried using a different LANG environment?
Well, the bug was arond, even after many rebuilds and new versions... Hoever, I just viped the disk and started to install all over again. As soon as i had X working, I was planning to close this bug if it then worked... Never tryed different LANG settings. That might be it...
Works fine now. :)
