Evolution "Preferences" Crashes

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 08:28 -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote:
> I've been testing the VirtualBox port, and I have had repeated crashes
> loading the kernel module.  One side effect of that is that I can no
> longer reach the "Preferences" menu within Evolution.  It crashes with
> the error message 
> 
>         GConf:ERROR:gconf-client.c:1202:gconf_client_key_is_writable:
>         assertion failed: (entry != NULL)
> 
> This sounds like a simple GConf fix, but I have no idea where the key is
> located.  Alternatively, there is often a .something file that can be
> deleted that restored things to proper working order.  If there is, what
> is that file?
> 
> Otherwise, evo seems to work fine, though it does drop the saved
> passwords to log in to my mail host.  System is i386 7-STABLE, Gnome
> 2.26.1.
> 
> Advice would be most appreciated.  If further info is needed, I can
> recompile with debugging flags.

You need to be running GConf 2.26.2.

Joe

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