Re: [Evolution] One possible fix for evolution-mail not working

[Gil Hauer <gilh sympatico ca>]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the tip; I checked the directory and it is, in fact, 755. Oh
well, I'll keep banging on this puppy -- eventually it will be beaten
into submission :)

Gil

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 03:32, Dave Allen wrote:
> I've seen posts over the last several weeks complaining that for
> various reasons, evolution-mail has not been working, usually
> resulting in a "Configuration Database not found" error.  For me,
> Evolution would start, but clicking on the Inbox icon in the shortcut
> bar didn't do anything.
>
> Some people have said that it works as root, but not as a regular
> user.  I also saw this.
>
> What happened to me was that the evolution RPM file (for RedHat 7.2
> anyway - not sure about other distros) isn't explicitly setting
> permissions on /usr/lib/evolution/camel-providers/1.0, so this
> directory was being created as drwx------ on my system.  Changing the
> permissions on this directory to drwxr-xr-x (and the usual killev ;
> oaf-slay bit) fixed it for me.
>
> Hope this helps somebody out there.
>
>
> -- 
> Dave Allen
> daveallen acm org
>
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