applications fail to open windows: gdesklets, evolution

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Fernan Aguero wrote:
| Hi again,
|
| as already mentioned in a previous message I am having
| problems launching a couple of gnome apps. I have already mentioned my
| experiences with evolution:
|
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1152207+0+archive/2004/freebsd-gnome/20041114.freebsd-gnome
|
| I just want to add that, following the suggestions I read
| somewhere else, I tried to see if I got some debugging
| output by setting these variables before running evolution:
| CAMEL_DEBUG=all
| CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1
| GROUPWISE_DEBUG=1
| DE2K_DEBUG=1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5)
|
| However in all cases, there is no output. As I said before,
| evolution runs in the background, no messages appear and no
| window ever opens.
|
| Thus I've set myself to try and somehow get some insight
| into what's going on. I then tried truss(1):
|
| truss -o /scratch/fernan/evolution.truss /usr/X11R6/bin/evolution
|
| and watched the output using 'tail -f /scratch/fernan/evolution.truss'
|
| a lot of output is produced rapidly, and then it stops. All
| of this output is collected here:
| http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/evolution.1.truss
|
| then, after some long minutes, I hit Ctrl-C and finished
| collecting a few more lines:
| http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/evolution.2.truss
|
| I don't know what this means but it doesn't seem to stop at
| the same exact line every time. It is stopping around line
| 10240 ... but the context lines are not exactly identical.
|
| This is from another truss run:
| http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/evolution.1.truss2
| http://genoma.unsam.edu.ar/~fernan/freebsd/evolution.2.truss2
|
| But, I'm not a programmer, thus this doesn't mean a lot to me. I
| collected this info in case it is useful to someone more
| knowledgeable than me :)
|
| Do you see anything particularly telling?

Yes, you have multiple versions of glib, gtk+, and pango linked into
Evolution.  You did not do the upgrade to GNOME 2.8 properly.

|
| Now I've found that gdesklets is showing a similar
| behaviour. Namely it does nothing when you click on it's
| launcher icon (you see a cursor watch for some time ... then
| the cursor arrow again). This time, though, when run in the
| command line, some output appears, though I'm not sure if
| it's related or not with the problem,
|
| [fernan at pi] gdesklets
| /usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets:65: DeprecationWarning: the 'argc' parameter
is optional and deprecated
|   client.set_restart_command(1, [sys.argv[0]])
| gDesklets 0.26.2
| Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 The gDesklets Team
|
| This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
|
| /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90:
GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainloop is deprecated, use gtk.main instead
|   self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning)
|
|
| If needed I can also truss gdesklets. I'm running
| FreeBSD-4.10-RELEASE-p3. And following is the list of what I
| have installed.
|
| I'll appreciate if you can give me some clue. If you don't
| know the solution please guide me as to what you think might
| be at fault: evolution, gnome?, my system?

These evolution problems only seem to be happening on your machine.  Evo
works just fine for me on 4.X, 5.X, and 6.X.

What I recommend you do is:

portupgrade -afu

This will run for a very long time, but when it's done, you should be okay.


|
| Should I send a PR with this?

Definitely not.

Joe


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