11may24 update - gnome dependency missing i think

[jessejazza]

I have just done the update today.... think it was 10.

I use Evolution as my Email Client and now unusable - it would seem a gnome dependency is missing from the latest updates. It has been working perfectly since i installed MX Linux a few months ago. I click on the icon in my panel, the screen loads and then disappears.

Technically i am not that knowledgeable but i would be grateful if this could be resolved.

[I have found Evolution faultless over the last few years. I am aware Thunderbird is the default email client for MX linux but i find it very slow for downloading compared with Evolution].

[Eadwine Rose]

Please share your full Quick System Info, found in the menu. Press the Copy for forum button, then click paste in a reply.. thanks.

[Stevo]

Also, if you start evolution from the terminal, do you get any error messages there?

I have just done the update today.... think it was 10.

Hmmm...not really obvious to me what "10" means.

Evolution in MX 23/Bookworm last updated more than a year ago.

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evolution (3.46.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick patch from GNOME 44 to fix spacebar to scroll preview messages
  * Cherry-pick translation updates from gnome-43 branch

 -- Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:28:02 -0400

None more recent for MX 21 or 19, neither.

[jessejazza]

'10' refers to the number of updates that were raised. Evolution ver 3.46.4-2 installed from MX Linux repo.

Just tried Evolution after posting 'quick system info' - [just added this afterwards] works fine. So i suppose my post has changed... why did it not work yesterday when i reported the fault?

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-21-686-pae [6.1.90-1] arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-21-686-pae root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.2_386 Libretto October 15  2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5KPL-AM IN/GB v: X.0x serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0506 date: 01/15/2010
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    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:29c2 class-ID: 0300
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Audio:
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  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
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Repos:
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Info:
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  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

[timkb4cq]

I would suggest opening a terminal and running evolution there to see if there are any error messages. Please copy & paste them here if there are.

[jessejazza]

Hmm no. Fault still there.

Evolution loads and menus work. BUT now when i try to read an email Evolution goes blank. Did an aptitude 'upgrade' just to check and all 'up to date'.

Did a 'restart' but problem still there.

[jessejazza]

I would suggest opening a terminal and running evolution there to see if there are any error messages. Please copy & paste them here if there are.

Thx for the suggestion below is the outcome

$ evolution

** (evolution:4187): WARNING **: 17:40:25.947: Failed to canonicalize path /home/james/.local/share/evolution/preview-plugins: No such file or directory

** (evolution:4187): CRITICAL **: 17:40:25.947: Attempted to add disallowed path to sandbox: /home/james/.local/share/evolution/preview-plugins
Floating point exception
james@mx:~$

It would seem that this update has somehow deleted 'preview-plugins'

[timkb4cq]

I would try creating the missing directory to see if that fixes the problem.

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mkdir -p /home/james/.local/share/evolution/preview-plugins

[jessejazza]

Thanks for the reply. I will create the directory but wonder what has been deleted inside the directory. I don't recall installing any plugins and can only presume that it looks for the directory and then crashes when it can find it.

[jessejazza]

Many thanks for your post i have created that directory but no change. Elsewhere i looked it claims to be a bug in Evolution as some other folk using different distros have posted in the Evolution mailing list.

I have tried switching to Thunderbird as it is the default email client for this distro. What i find awkward is that one cannot increase font size for messages... as i have posted in General Chat.