[Evolution] Configuration Database not found..AGAIN.

[Andrew Green <andrew green securetrendz com>]

I know this has been posted before, but I didn't see any real or 
satisfactory solution so I'm asking myself.  This problem stopped me at 
0.99 and 0.99.1, so I gave up.  Seeing 1.0 announced I thought I'd try 
again.

Slackware 8.  I've installed all required packages as defined in the 
README, including those distributed alongside the evolution-1.0.tar.gz. 
Everything was built from source, with --prefix=/opt/gnome.

Upon starting evolution, in the xterm I get:

evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on 
wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)

and in a popup window I get:

Cannot Initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not 
found.

ldd shows no reference to the mozilla libs for *anything* in 
/opt/gnome/bin/* so I assume that the previous post regarding this 
doesn't apply....and since I don't have the moz libs/includes installed, 
I'm not surprised.  (mozilla is self-contained)

What does concern me is that nobody seems to have any idea where this 
problem is manifested, nor how to solve it.  How can this be?  Surely 
one of the developers has encountered this, and traced it!

BTW - Running evolution as root or a regular user makes no difference; 
same error.

I'd be glad to assist in any troubleshooting...I'd really like to 
actually see evo work.

Thanks,
Andrew

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