getting an annoying behavior on evolution under fc4...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I just went from fc3 to fc4. Moved my evolution folder to new fc4 environment. Now I am getting this annoying message when I start up evolution:

evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server...
adding hook target 'source'

and got a prompt to restart evolution when quiting, then the same message show up. The second time I quit evolution, it is find; no message show up. Any idea how to get this to go away. Thanks.

[Gopi Sekar]

try evolution --force-shutdown from shell prompt. if that does not solve the problem then the most likely issue is you have two data-server package installed on your system.

Ensure you have only one evolution-data-server file in /usr/libexec folder, if you have more than one, then the file with lesser version gets called everytime thus giving that error message. move the lesser version file to some other folder (dont delete it) and restart evolution and you should be fine.

Regards,
Gopi

[K.C. Chan]

I believe this is the case, here's what is currently installed:
evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4
evolution-data-server-1.2.3-2.fc4
evolution-webcal-2.2.0-1

here is what is on /usr/libexec
./evolution-webcal
./evolution-data-server-1.2
./evolution
./evolution/2.2/evolution-addressbook-clean
./evolution/2.2/evolution-addressbook-export
./evolution/2.2/evolution-alarm-notify

Any idea which one, do I really need "evolution-data-server-1.2"? Thanks.

[Gopi Sekar]

yes you need evolution-data-server-1.2 (atleast one data-server binary should exist).

Since you have only one data-server installed in /usr/libexec I believe either previous version of evolution-data-server is still running. check ps -ax|grep evolution after shutting down the evolution. if there are any process exists then kill them using 'evolution --force-shutdown' if any process still exists then kill them manually by pid.

also check for any file having start name as evolution-data-server from /usr directory, if any exists other than evolution-data-server-1.2 then try to move it out to some other location (to /tmp or /root so that it is not available in search path).

Hope this helps,
Gopi