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Bug 246705 - could not create a new mail message
could not create a new mail message
Status: RESOLVED NOTXIMIAN
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: html-editor-control
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 246841
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-22 05:35 UTC by Ben Li
Modified: 2003-07-25 02:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Ben Li 2003-07-22 05:35:16 UTC 
Description of Problem:
   could not create new mail message

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. start evolution
2. Click "New", "New -> mail message", or "New -> Post message" in toolbar
icon or in "File" menu.

Actual Results:
   An error dialog box is shown, and the application will crash sometimes.

Expected Results:
   

How often does this happen? 
   Always

Additional Information:
Could not create composer window:
Unable to activate HTML editor component.
Please make sure you have the correct version
of gtkhtml and libgtkhtml installed.


The error from the activation system is:
g_module_open of `/usr/lib/gtkhtml/libgnome-gtkhtml-editor-3.0.so' failed
with `/usr/lib/gtkhtml/libgnome-gtkhtml-editor-3.0.so: cannot open shared
object file: Permission denied'
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-07-22 05:43:26 UTC 
cannot open shared
object file: Permission denied'

what do you suppose that means? :-)

change the file permissions.
Comment 2 Ben Li 2003-07-23 04:30:30 UTC 
I have change the file permission for libgnome-gtkhtml-editor-3.0.so,
but it does not work yet.
Comment 3 Gerardo Marin 2003-07-23 22:38:03 UTC 
Which permissions do you have on it?
By no means this is an Evolution problem. Please do not reopen the report.