Re: GNOME 3 issue - Evolution is offline due to a network outage
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 20:24 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > after upgrading all packages to latest GNOME 3 versions from testing
> > Evolution still starts with "Evolution is currently offline due to a
> > network outage. Evolution will return to online mode once a network
> > connection is established". It's impossible to connect it. Evolution 3
> > did work with GNOME 2 some days ago.
> >
> > Now Evolution only works, when I start it with the --force-online
> > option, without an option or with --online only it doesn't work.
>
> That is usually related to a combination of evolution, dbus, and
> NetworkManager. With all three installed the idea was that NM would
> say whether it had a working network or not over dbus. Tools like
> evolution would ask on dbus about the state of the network and switch
> to online or offline as networks were hotplugged.
>
> This breaks down when the network isn't managed by NM but NM is still
> running. Such as when /etc/network/interfaces is configured to use
> ifupdown instead. If NM is running then it won't have any networks
> under its control and it fails to recognize that the system does
> actually have a network running outside of its control. It will
> respond to evolution that there are no active networks even though
> there are active networks. That is a bug in NetworkManager.
>
> Depending upon your system and desire the solution is either to ensure
> that NM is configuring the network so that it knows the network state
> and can report it correctly or to ensure that it isn't configuring the
> network and isn't running so that it can't report it incorrectly.
>
> Bob
Thank you Bob :)
since I've got to tweak too much, I simply will run "evolution
--force-online".
- Ralf
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