GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 727952
gtk_entry_set_text: assertion 'text != NULL' failed
Last modified: 2014-04-11 08:53:58 UTC
Created attachment 273972 [details] "OK" button is not active Hi. When running evolution 3.12 I see a lot of: (evolution:24280): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion 'text != NULL' failed (evolution:24280): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion 'text != NULL' failed (evolution:24280): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion 'text != NULL' failed <...> on the console. As a result, the interface is kinda of borked in the sense that some buttons are greyed out and some settings cannot be modified. Screenshot showing the issue is attached.
(In reply to comment #0) > As a result, the interface is kinda of borked in the sense that some buttons > are greyed out and some settings cannot be modified. Thanks for a bug report. The runtime critical warnings are not a reason for the OK button being disabled, it's a bug #58777. I just realized they rejected it. It's bad. Anyway, the OK button is most likely disabled because you've missing some information being set either on the Receiving Email or on the Sending Email pages, like user name or server address, or such. Could you verify that, please?
Hi Milan. > Thanks for a bug report. The runtime critical warnings are not a reason for the > OK button being disabled, it's a bug #58777. I just realized they rejected it. > It's bad. Oh... quite old :-) > Anyway, the OK button is most likely disabled because you've missing some > information being set either on the Receiving Email or on the Sending Email > pages, like user name or server address, or such. Could you verify that, > please? Indeed you're right... the username field was missing in the smtp page. Not why the account setting wizards did... But there are still some glitches, for e.g. in the "Sending Email" tab, I cannot change the Server Type (it is smtp now and wanted to move it to sendmail). Also when setting a "Real folder for trash" and saving the preferences I am getting the following error: No such interface 'org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Source.Writable' on object at path /org/gnome/evolution/dataserver/SourceManager/Source_7 These are probably not related to the initial issue -- so let me know if you prefer I open a new ticket.
(In reply to comment #2) > Indeed you're right... the username field was missing in the smtp page. Not why > the account setting wizards did... How did you configure the account, was it directly in evolution, or through GNOME Online Accounts? I guess it's the later, also due to the "No such interface" error message. > But there are still some glitches, for e.g. in the "Sending Email" tab, I > cannot change the Server Type (it is smtp now and wanted to move it to > sendmail). It's done intentionally, Matthew dropped support for changing Sending/Receiving types once you have it saved, which means you can decide when you are creating the new account, but not after it. It was doe to be consistent with calendar/book/... source editors, though it probably was not a good decision. There might also be some older bug reports with it, thus they can be possibly reopened and the decision rethought. I'm closing this as a duplicate of bug #684425, which I just reopened. I agree with continuing in other bug reports with the sub-issues mentioned above. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 684425 ***
> How did you configure the account, was it directly in evolution, or through It was directly from evolution (empty profile) with the first time wizard. > It's done intentionally, Matthew dropped support for changing Sending/Receiving > types once you have it saved, which means you can decide when you are creating > the new account, but not after it. It was doe to be consistent with > calendar/book/... source editors, though it probably was not a good decision. > There might also be some older bug reports with it, thus they can be possibly > reopened and the decision rethought. Ah alright. OK that's good then :-) > I'm closing this as a duplicate of bug #684425, which I just reopened. I agree > with continuing in other bug reports with the sub-issues mentioned above. Thanks Milan.