[3976] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Evolution 1.4 and bugreport
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Aug 5 16:35:30 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Thomas Heldt <thomas@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 05 Aug 2003 16:35:22 -0400
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:55, Thomas Heldt wrote:
> What now? send
> spost: aliasing error in file aliases - unable to read 'aliases'
> send: message not delivered to anyone
What are the contents of your .mh_profile?
> (evolution:1548): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: file bonobo-ui-util.c: line 182
> (bonobo_ui_util_xml_to_pixbuf): assertion `xml != NULL' failed
[etc.]
GNOME programs tend to spew bogus error messages about circumstances
which aren't really errors, or which reflect mostly harmless bugs in the
code. The upstream developers don't tend to notice or care. We don't
really have the resources to investigate each and every failure to
properly check and deal with conditions like these, so we mostly just
suppress the output. If you run evolution from the GNOME panel by
clicking on the "mail" icon, error output will be suppressed; or, you
can run "evolution >&/dev/null" from the command line.
The amount of this output may go down in a future patch release if and
when we install the gnome-spell package, since we've had a request for
spell checking support. But I doubt it will go away completely.
