intermittent mail notifications.

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Does this happen for every app or only for evolution. Does notify work properly for empathy ?

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Yes this only happens in Evolution. All sounds and notifications work fine otherwise.

What is empathy?

Would you like me to report this again using apport?

Can you send a notification using "notify-send sometext" in terminal, do you see a bubble when doing that command?

Please attach the log file at '~/.cache/notify-osd.log'

Can you send a notification using "notify-send sometext" in terminal, do you see a bubble when doing that command?

There was no bubble when I ran that in a terminal.

How do I un install the utility that I had to install to run that command?

"bob@bob-laptop:~$ notify-send sometext
The program 'notify-send' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin"

Please attach the log file at '~/.cache/notify-osd.log'

I did a search for this file and could not find it. Is it supposed to be in the home/evolution folder?

It seems that you don't have the notify-osd package installed. Can go to System > Administration > Synaptics Package Manager and install notify-osd? Please try to reproduce the problem then.

The log file would be in a hidden folder called .cache in home directory. You can press Ctrl + H to view those folders in nautilus,

It seems that it is already installed?

I marked them for re-installation and then reinstalled them.

Now i can run "notify-send sometext " in a terminal and the bubble does appear.

However when I receive new mail in Evolution it does not appear.

Here is what is in my notify osd log file even after I retrieved two mail messages in Evolution.

[2010-02-10T15:49:01-00:00, notify-send ] sometext

[2010-02-10T15:51:57-00:00, notify-send ] sometext

it's rather libnotify-bin which is not installed and which is the binary which has notify-send

It seems that it is installed but not working?

Thanks for the information. it now seems that notifications are working since the logs seems to have what you sent via notify-send. Do you get other notifications? Network connection, power notification, empathy/pidgin notifications?

I started the machine this morning and received a notification that my wireless was connected.

I download some e-mail and no notification appeared.

I ran "notify-send sometext" in terminal again and no notification appeared so I looked at my osd log file and this is what I found.

So I chose to reload and then ran "notify-send sometext" in terminal again and this is what happened in the osd log file.

No notification appeared.

Oh, I think that was because I had the file open. Sorry.

But still when I type"notify-send sometext" in a terminal there is no notification even though it shows up in the osd log file.

Where do we go from here? <g>

After speaking with a member of the ayatana team, changing package to evolution-indicator as that seems to be the issue now.

Nigel, I am not at all sure what you mean.

Could you please explain it a little better to a neub?

I've changed the package to evolution-indicator, which seems to be the root of the issue here. Please also report the version of evolution-indicator that you have installed so that someone can take a look at this.

I've changed the package to evolution-indicator? Not sure what this means.

As I stated in my first post I am using version Ubuntu 9.10 Evolution 2.28.1.

When/who will take a look at this problem?