[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk digest - Evolution frustrations (Michelle Murrain)

[Malke Routh]

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 19:01, techtalk-request at linuxchix.org wrote:
 
> Today's Topics:
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>    1. evolution frustrations (Michelle Murrain)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 21:16:08 -0400
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> From: Michelle Murrain <tech at murrain.net>
> Subject: [Techtalk] evolution frustrations
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> I've been struggling for 2 days to get Ximian Gnome and evolution to 
> install and work. I'm starting with a clean Mandrake 8.0 install. I ran 
> into trouble with the gnome components in Mandrake, so I started again, 
> installing no gnome components.
> 
> My problem now is that I can get evolution to run, but 2 things happen. 
> First, I get the error: "could not open 
> '/home/mpm/evolution/local/Calendar/calendar.ics' no items from the 
> calendar folder will be migrated into the tasks folder.
> 
> Then, when I try to compose a new message, it says "the Evolution component 
> that handles folders of type "mail" has unexpectedly quit. You will need to 
> quit and restart Evolution in order to access that data again.
> 
> I had an old evolution folder (I'd set it up previously in a different 
> distro) in my home directory - I got rid of that, and the problem persists.
> 
> I can't find anything about either of these problems in the ximian 
> knowledge base.
> 
> Suggestions, Ideas?
> 
> .Michelle

What version of Evolution are you using?  The latest is 1.0.5, and it
does solve a lot of problems.  I was going to list them all, but since
they are not the same as yours, I won't torture you with them.  I use
SuSE 8.0 and KDE (sorry, don't really like Gnome).

What with all of that, I hope that helps a bit.  You know, I really
_want_ Evolution to work.  It's just not quite there yet, but then -
what is the alternative?

Cheers and best wishes,

Malke
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