Re: [Evolution] problem starting evolution for another user

[Srikanth Madugundi <msrikant sun com>]

I guess the problem with running su
simply doing su inherits all the env variables of eariler user..
so try doing "su - user"

HTH
-srikanth
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 19:16, Paul Hands wrote:
>     Hi, 
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>     I've had a similar experience.  It usually got solved by making sure that the user has the correct environment variables set up. 
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>     Assuming a C shell....... 
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>     setenv GNOME_PATH to wherever Gnome lives (/opt/gnome for Solaris) 
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>     setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include $GNOME_PATH/lib 
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>     and, just for convenience, 
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>     set path=($path /opt/gnome/bin) 
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>     rehash 
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>     Then it works, at least so far. 
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>     HTH 
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>     Paul 
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>     On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 13:58, Alessio Dessi wrote: 
> > Sometimes I've to run evo for another user, so I open a terminal and
> > "su" to the user, sometimes evolution start I'm happy another times
> > say   "Cannot initialize the Evolution shell."
> >
> > evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on
> > wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)
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> > there is any solution to this?
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> > thanks in advance
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> > Alessio
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