[TriLUG] RH8 and Evolution Problem

[Ben Pitzer]

Ken,

Check to see if you have any legacy Evo processes running.  How are you
shutting it down?  Just going to the X in the corner of the window is
not recommended, in my experience.  Shutting it down using the
File->Exit method seems to be the best way.  Occasionally, processes
will remain open.  When this happens to you again, try running 'killev'
from the command line.  Once it finishes, open Evo again.  Should do the
trick for you.  However, it's not something that you want to do often,
as it doesn't do things nicely (I think it uses signal 9, which we all
know is a last resort).

Good luck.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 02:09, Ken Mink wrote:
> Hello Everyone, 
>   I am having a strange problem with Evolution under RH8. If I use
> Evolution and then log out, Evolution won't start during my next
> session. I get a dialog box and a message on STDERR. 
> 
> Dialog Box: 
> Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not
> found 
> 
> STDERR: 
> evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on
> wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) 
> 
>   As I write this, bonobo and wombat are running. Evidently, they don't
> want to start a second time. I can't find a logfile that has any
> evidence. 
>   This was a clean install of RH8. I chose the workstation option, which
> completed without incident. My home directory was not reformatted from
> the previous install. This behavior is occurring under both KDE and
> Gnome. 
>   Rebooting to use email is damn annoying. Anyone got any ideas? 
> 
> Ken
> 
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