Hi, guess what my friends, I was using Evolution to check my emails happily until....yesterday. Briefly, for a moment I had nothing to do, and decided to change the ownership of /tmp directory (normaly the owner is root) to me (Maxei). I did this when logged as a different user (in KDE). So when I logged in as Maxei, a shower of errors from gnome greeted me, saying something like applications failed to open. But what really worries me is Evolution. If I try to open Evolution through console, this is what I get:
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[maxei@localhost gconf]$ evolution
asked to activate component_id `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Component:2.0
'
addressbook_migrate (0.0.0)
(evolution:13230): e-data-server-WARNING **: Could not update "/apps/evolution/a
ddressbook/sources": Failed to contact configuration server; some possible cause
s 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 infor
mation. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/ior' not opened successfu
lly, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/
lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
(evolution:13230): camel-WARNING **: Invalid root: '/home/maxei/.evolution/mail/l
ocal/Drafts.ibex.index'
(evolution:13230): camel-WARNING **: version: TEXT.000 (TEXT.000)
(evolution:13230): camel-WARNING **: block size: 1024 (1024) OK
(evolution:13230): camel-WARNING **: free: 0 (0 add size < 1024) OK
(evolution:13230): camel-WARNING **: last: 6144 (6144 and size: 1024) BAD
(evolution:13230): camel-WARNING **: flags: unSYNC
account gui setup
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 1299 (gconf_clie
nt_get_entry): assertion `err == NULL || *err == NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-value.c: line 1494 (gconf_entry
_unref): assertion `entry != NULL' failed
(evolution:13230): e-utils-WARNING **: Could not load account lock settings: Fai
led to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to e
nable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system c
rash. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: I
OR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located:
No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/ior' not opened suc cessfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
checking writable option 'auth' perms=00000040
checking writable option 'use_ssl' perms=00000010
checking writable option 'auth' perms=00000040
checking writable option 'use_ssl' perms=00000010
(evolution:13230): e-data-server-WARNING **: Cannot update "/apps/evolution/cale ndar/sources": 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: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/ior' not opened successfully, n o gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/i or' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
(evolution:13230): e-data-server-WARNING **: Cannot update "/apps/evolution/task s/sources": Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are tha t you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks du e to a system crash. See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. ( Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no g confd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-maxei/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)
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In addition, Evolution asks me to set up again everything, which I dont want to do because I want to preserve all my folders with my email messages. Awww hek! when I thought that Evolution was the top app.for Linux, and now this mess happening.
By the way, I have reverted the ownership of /tmp to root, and the error continues. It is so easy to fuck up a Linux system but how difficult to repair it!
Maxei DeVraie