Re: Can't start Evolution in Sid
On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 10:58, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:49, Rob Rati wrote:
> > I'm running a freshly installed Sid and Gnome2, but I can't get
> > Evolution to run. When I try to load it, I get this error message:
> >
> > "Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database
> > not found"
> >
> > I have met all the dependencies of Evolution, so what Configuration
> > Database is it talking about? Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Rob
>
> Well, A quick google search turns up a _lot_ of info which can be boiled
> down to "run killev && oafslay && rm -rf /tmp/orbit-<your username>"
> That (google) should always be your first course of action.
>
> Barring that, the only thing I can think of is that gnome2 uses gconfd-2
> and evo needs gconfd-1. try doing a killall gconfd-2 and then running
> evolution (there is a similar problem with galeon)
>
Though I haven't seen the problem in galeon, I have with a recent
(within last few days) apt-get update in sid. Something went awry, and
now evolution does the above. I have resorted to putting this nasty
little hack into my .xsession file:
xmessage "Running oaf-slay until gnome2 and evo are fixed" &
oaf-slay -s
killall gconfd-2
gnome-session
Obviously, the xmessage is to remind me to check back on this from time
to time.
Jamie Strandboge
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