Re: [Evolution] Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: configuration database not found

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

i missed the non-standard directory thing.  Is this the same install
prefix to which evolution-1.0.5 had been installed?  If not, is 1.0.5
still installed?

Make sure the following two things have been done:

1. your PATH includes $install_prefix/bin

   (so oafd can find the executables)

2. one of the following two choices:
   a. your OAF_INFO_PATH env var includes $install_prefix/share/oaf
   b. your GNOME_PATH env var includes $install_prefix

  (so oafd can find the .oaf files)

I have evolution 1.2 installed into /opt/evolution here, and have the
following settings:

GNOME_PATH=/usr/local:/usr:/opt/evolution
PATH=....:/opt/evolution/bin

make those changes, run killev, kill oafd then restart evolution.

Chris

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:42, Jeff Boerio wrote:
> I built Evolution 1.2 from source last night, installing in a non-standard 
> directory.  Had been running Evolution 1.0.5 just fine.  Was able to run
> the 1.2 version last night without difficult.
>
> This morning, however, I needed to reboot my box, a Redhat 7.1 machine,
> and can no longer get Evolution to come up.  I get this in my xterm window:
>
> (Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase, not upgrading configuration.)
>         IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0
>
> evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)
>
> and a dialog box that says "Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: configuration database not found 
> [OK]".
>
> I did some searching and found some suggestions, including "killev;oaf-slay"
> which didn't help.  I also removed the evolution directory and started
> over, but that didn't help.  Some have suggested libnspr4, but I don't
> know that this would solve my problem since I was able to run Evolution
> right up until I rebooted the box.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
>      - Jeff
>
>
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