Tomboy won't run on fresh reinstall of Fedora 10

JacekZ · 03-14-2009, 07:29 AM

Hi,
I recently installed F10 and all seems well on the desktop (apart from the instant reboot on hibernate problem - but that's another story). But I can't seem to run Tomboy. Tried yum remove, yum reinstall etc, restart, manually deleting the config files, taking the rpm out of the cache and downloading it again. All to no avail.

Error message on trying to add to panel:

Code:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:TomboyApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

Error message on trying to run from terminal:

Code:

[DEBUG]: NoteManager created with note path "/home/j/.tomboy".

** (Tomboy:2932): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe could not be loaded:
     Assembly:   Mono.Addins    (assemblyref_index=8)
     Version:    0.3.0.0
     Public Key: 0738eb9f132ed756
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/usr/lib/tomboy).


** (Tomboy:2932): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'Mono.Addins, Version=0.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756' or one of its dependencies.

** (Tomboy:2932): WARNING **: Missing method .ctor in assembly /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe, type Mono.Addins.AddinEventHandler

** (Tomboy:2932): WARNING **: Missing method .ctor in assembly /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe, type Mono.Addins.AddinEventHandler

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Mono.Addins, Version=0.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'Mono.Addins, Version=0.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756'
  at Tomboy.AddinManager..ctor (System.String tomboy_conf_dir) [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.NoteManager.CreateAddinManager () [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory, System.String backup_directory) [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory) [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.Tomboy.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

And on running as su:

Code:

(Tomboy:4375): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Tomboy.NoteManager ---> GLib.GException: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
  at GConf.Client.GetConnections (System.String dir) [0x00000] 
  at GConf.Client.AddNotify (System.String dir, GConf.NotifyEventHandler notify) [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.Preferences.get_Client () [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.Preferences.Get (System.String key) [0x00000] 
  at Tomboy.NoteManager..cctor () [0x00000] 
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at Tomboy.Tomboy.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

Anyone know what's wrong? I have the same install on another computer and it all works.

Jacek

sandyarmstrong · 03-14-2009, 10:57 AM

You do not have mono-addins 0.3 installed, as the error message says. The Tomboy package you are using was built with that version of mono-addins, and you need that version installed. I don't know if the reason it is missing is because you have messed with your system or because the Tomboy package is broken on Fedora 10.

I would suggest filing a bug with the Fedora project if your problems continue, so that they can be alerted to the problem and fix it.

JacekZ · 03-14-2009, 03:37 PM

thanks sandyarmstrong,
your fix worked a treat! "could not load" may be obvious to some, but I hadn't figured it meant the module wasn't there at all, so the explanation was very helpful. I can only guess mono-addins went missing as a dependency when I removed tomboy, but when I reinstalled tomboy you'd have thought mono-addins would have come back in as a dependency. I hadn't changed much else in the system. Reluctant to file a bug as everything worked OK on my other machine.
Jacek