The problem turned out to be the new version of gtk. I did the upgrade using the red-carpet and the red-carpet upgraded gtk from 2.0.0 to 2.2.0 (I have to admit that I was not paying attention). This made X a bit unstable. Most apps would run but some were crashing (OpenOffice). To fix the problem I had to upgrade libgnomeui from 2.0.3-3 to 2.2.0.1-0.ximian.5.8. Now everything works fine.

So evolution is probably not at fault. The only thing that worries me is the red-carpet update: how did I ended up upgrading the gtk version without asking for it? Since I can't remember what was the upgrade list presented during installation however, I can't blame anybody but myself...

Let me know if you are still interested in any aspects of this problem. I will be glad to help.


Piotr Romanus


On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 21:01, Not Zed wrote:
I presume this is remote X?

I think you've probably hit a gtk issue, not an evolution one.  Do other gtk apps work fine?

Can yuou get a backtrace? (attach to bug).

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:03 -0400, Piotr Romanus wrote:
For some reason this message did not show up in the list even though I 
sent it yesterday:

I just installed 1.4.6 using red-carpet on RH 8.0. Every time I try to 
run the new evolution, it crashes with the following output from the xterm:

(evolution:4710): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of 
abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'

(gnome_segv:4711): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
module_path: "bluecurve",

(gnome_segv:4711): Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER 
support is present,
but fails to supply the necessary pixmap support.  In
other words, it is buggy.

I submitted a bug report # 56839 but I wonder is there anything I can do 
to get it to work? Is there any way to come back to the old version? 
Evolution is my primary mailer...

Any help greatly appreciated.

Piotr Romanus
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