[Evolution] Re: Cannot initialize the ... Shell: Help, I've tried everything.

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley home com>]

On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 20:36, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> > > I made a bonehead mistake (to make a long story short):
> > > % rm -f /usr/share/oaf/*.oaf
> > >
> > > Now whenever I try to start Evolution I get the dreaded:
> > >
> > > Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell:  Configuration Database not found
>
> > Is bonobo-conf installed?  That's the piece that contains the
> > configuration database file it's complaining about.
>
> % dpkg -l bonobo-conf
>
> ii  bonobo-conf    0.12-ximian.1  Bonobo Configuration library
>
>
> It's there.  I just upgraded to 0.12 and still no luck.
>
> Is it actually a file that is missing?  Where should it be?

In my case it was a missing .oaf file (I believe it was
/usr/local/share/oaf/Bonobo_Moniker_xmldb.oaf).  But this wasn't the
case for others who had the problem.  I don't recall what their fix
was.  It's in the archives from a month or two ago.

Dan