[3977] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Evolution 1.4 and bugreport
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Heldt)
Tue Aug 5 16:40:34 2003
From: Thomas Heldt <thomas@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 05 Aug 2003 16:40:32 -0400
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:35, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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?
>
Path: Mail
Editor: emacs
Msg-Protect: 600
Folder-Protect: 700
Prompter-next: emacs
rmmproc: delete
send: -alias aliases
ali: -alias aliases
post: -alias aliases
whom: -alias aliases
draft-folder: drafts
unseen-sequence: unseen
I actually do not use mh mail. I installed it to send the bug report.
Thanks for the note below. I will run evolution from the GNOME panel to
suppress the error messages.
> > (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.
>
