[27335] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.54: evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jul 16 18:25:18 2009
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:40 -0400, Robert Basch wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> > What were you trying to do?
> > click on an html link in an Email message in evolution
> >
> > What's wrong:
> > I get this error message:
> >
> > (evolution:30226): evolution-mail-WARNING **: gnome_url_show: There
> > was an error launching the default action command associated with this
> > location.
>
> Hi.
>
> I assume this is an http: link?
>
> This could be due to a bad GConf setting, though it's a bit odd that
> you have the same problem with 2 accounts. It "works for me", though.
>
> Can you please check the output of:
>
> gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
>
> The output should be "firefox %s". If not, you can just unset it, and
> thus revert to the system default (which should be firefox), with:
>
> gconftool-2 --unset /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
>
> If this does not help, then the system-wide setting may have been
> changed somehow.
>
> Bob
>
Hi Bob,
Jon Reed figured it out for me- it was a long-invalid path to firefox in
the GConf setting. I had never used evolution before, and presumably the
path never got updated properly somehow.
Thanks, Alex
