evolution exchange connector

ruscook ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au
Wed Feb 15 08:44:28 UTC 2006


No probs Mike, glad it's working.

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:09 +0200, Mike Kenny wrote:

> Russ, 
> 
> again thanks for the effort. You are teaching me a lot about
> evolution, even if it isn't solving my problem. However, after playing
> around for a while it actually connected. The only thing that I think
> was different was that between starting evolution and entering my
> password (it had reverted to not remebering for some reason) I
> received a 'phone call. This interposed a lengthy delay between
> starting and trying to access Exchange. Perhaps with remembering my
> password it was trying to connect to the exchange connector backend
> before it had finihsed initializing?
> 
> For now, working. I will try and confirm my suspicions as activity
> permits
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 2/14/06, Russell Cook <bike_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>         Sorry Mike this is now beyond my expertise ;-(
>         
>         If evolution --force-shutdown fails then I'd try
>         sudo kill -9 30998 31010
>         to force shutdown of the evolution related processes. Then try
>         again.
>         
>         Something that may also help is to do evolution
>         --component=mail
>         Sometimes when it gets confused on Task, addressbook or
>         Calendar modes, forcing a start in mail mode allows you to
>         recover.
>         
>         Good luck.
>         Russ
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:41 +0200, Mike Kenny wrote:
>         
>         > Russel,
>         > 
>         > thanks for the offer to help. I have not yet had a chance to
>         > reboot, but I have noticed some evolution process running in
>         > the background -
>         > 
>         > mkenny   30998     1  0 15:36 ?
>         > 00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-dat a-server-1.4
>         > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_InterfaceCheck  --oaf-ior-fd=53
>         > mkenny   31010     1  0 15:36 ?
>         > 00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/2.4/evolution -alarm-notify
>         > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify_Fac tory:2.4 --oaf-ior-fd=57
>         > 
>         > killing these and restarting still fails. evolution
>         > --force-shutdown also fails. 
>         > Executing from the command line outputs -
>         > 
>         > adding hook target 'source'
>         > 
>         > (evolution-2.4:31103): Gdk-CRITICAL **:
>         > gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
>         > 
>         > None of which means anything to me. If you can help, I would
>         > really appreciate it.
>         > 
>         > Thanks,
>         > 
>         > Mike
>         > 
>         > On 2/13/06, Russell Cook <bike_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>         > 
>         >         Hi Mike 
>         >         I haven't worked at an exchagne site for a few
>         >         months now. But intermittently my evolution also
>         >         used to die. Does it work if you reboot? If so,
>         >         "evolution --force-shutdown" from a terminal kills
>         >         all the component processes of evolution  and allows
>         >         a restart of the app.
>         >         
>         >         If it's more complicated than this, we'd need you to
>         >         run evolution from the command line and report any
>         >         errors to hope to get a clue on the problem.
>         >         
>         >         Russ 
>         >         
>         >         On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:16 +0200, Mike Kenny wrote:
>         >         
>         >         > I have been happily (ecstatically?) using Ubuntu
>         >         > 5.10 as my desktop environment for the last few
>         >         > week. As my employer is predominantly a M$ shop I
>         >         > must intereact with Exchange so I have been using
>         >         > evolution 2.4.1 as as supplied with Ubuntu as my
>         >         > mail client and groupware agent. This morning when
>         >         > I tried to start up evolution I receive an error
>         >         > box informing me that 'The Application
>         >         > "evolution-exchange-storage" has quit
>         >         > unexpectedly.' and I am unable to continue. i.e.
>         >         > evolution starts but I can't access any
>         >         > functionality that requires this connector.
>         >         > 
>         >         > Has anyone else encounter this problem? Did you
>         >         > manage to discover the cause? And the solution?
>         >         > 
>         >         > As an aside I tried to follow the link to report
>         >         > the problem to the developers, but a) this didn't
>         >         > provide an option to report against the exchange
>         >         > connector and b) it only allowed for version up to
>         >         > 1.5.9 of evolution. Is this facility still in use?
>         >         > 
>         >         > TIA
>         >         > 
>         >         > Mike
>         >         > 
>         >         
>         >         Kind Regards Russell
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