Re: [Evolution] "Cannot initialize the Ximian shell" after "su"

[Andrew Green <andrew green securetrendz com>]

You really ought to visit the archive of the evolution list.  This has 
been discussed heavily and solved by many.

Andrew

Gerald Champagne wrote:

> I'm running Evolution 1.01 and it does not want to start if you run it
> after su'ing from someone else's account.  This is very reproducible by
> doing the following:
>
> - Log in at gdm as someone else. (don't know if will do here)
> - Open a terminal
> - su - <your account>
> - evolution&
>
> The command line shows:
>
> evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on
> wombat: (IDL:
> OAF/GeneralError:1.0)
>
> And a dialog appears saying:
>
> Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell:  Configuration Database
> not found
>
> If I run oaf-slay and then try again it works.  I searched Bugzilla
> found bug 19329, but I'm not sure if what I found is the same thing.  Is
> this a known issue or should I open another bug report?  Can anyone else
> duplicate this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
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