Re: Evolution is missing icons in GUI and crashes - maybe dbus issue

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:15:30 -0500
"Doctor Who" <whodoctor%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2008 4:13 PM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:19:38 -0500
> > "Doctor Who" <whodoctor%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > After installing gnome-control-center (still confused as to why
> > > that was not done as a dependency of other packages like
> > > Evolution)
> >
> > Probably just a simple mistake.  If that solves your problem,
> > send-pr the issue and someone will fix the package.
> >
> > As for how the mistake happened -- developing packages with a lot of
> > dependencies is difficult, especially if you're working on a machine
> > with many packages installed.  Did the package work because you got
> > all of the dependencies right, or because you just happened to have
> > something installed that someone else might not?  I had problems
> > with a package just two weeks ago because of the maintainer's
> > configuration. (OTOH, a couple of years ago I had the opposite
> > problem.  I couldn't build a particular package because of
> > something else I had installed -- an unfortunate namespace
> > collision -- but for a long time, the package maintainer was very
> > puzzled because he couldn't reproduce my problem. Eventually, I
> > figured out that the namespace collision was occurring.)
> >
> >
> >                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> >
> 
> Yes, this fixed it for me.  Thanks all for the help.

Great.  send-pr the dependency issue, and suggest that a MESSAGE file
be included that mentions the need to start that other daemon manually
if you're not in a Gnome environment.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb