Re: [Evolution] Solaris starting Evolution errors with Bonobo and wombat -- Working now

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 20:31, Not Zed wrote:
> Hmm i think 3&4 can be done by setting some oaf variable OAF_INFO_PATH
> or somesuch.

Yeah, and this is actually what evolution-nognome is supposed to do
(using GNOME_PATH instead of OAF_INFO_PATH actually, but that shouldn't
matter).

Anyways, it sounds like you might have an oaf that doesn't come from the
Ximian packages?  All the Ximian packages install stuff in /opt/gnome.

> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 03:35, KEVEN M MURPHY wrote:
> > Got it working now.
> >
> > The Fix:
> >
> > 1) Downloaded newest version
> >     (Didn't run still after installing)
> > 2) cd /usr/share
> > 3) ln -s /opt/gnome /usr/share/gnome     
> > 4) ln -s /opt/gnome/share/oaf /usr/share/oaf
> > 5) killev; oaf-slay
> > 6) evolution-nognome
> >
> >
> > I think steps 3&4 were the key in getting it to work. If there any
> > developers out there you should make a note to see if this is the case
> > for the solaris distrubtions.
> >
> > Thank you for your help Ettore.
> >
> >
> > One happy Evolution user,
> > K Murphy
> > murphyk gdls com
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:34, KEVEN M MURPHY wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 May 2002 11:07 am, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are you using the Evolution-only install or the full install?  Are you
> > > > running under a GNOME session or under CDE?
> > >
> > > I have tried it under Gnome, CDE, and KDE.
> > >
> > > > If you are running under CDE and executing `evolution' from the
> > > > command-line, that might be the problem.  Try running
> > > > `evolution-nognome' instead.
> > > I get command not found. There is no command listed under /opt/gnome/bin. I 
> > > even tried evolution --no-gnome and that didn't work either.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Otherwise, please try running `oaf-slay' and then `wombat' on the
> > > > command-line to see if wombat has some problem starting up.  If wombat
> > > > starts up fine, run evolution without killing wombat and see if it spits
> > > > out some meaningful error message.
> > >
> > > Nope it doesn't. Here is what I get:
> > >
> > > $ oaf-slay
> > >
> > > The following processes are still running on the system.
> > > These processes will be terminated.
> > >
> > > NOTE:  Killing these processes may affect other applications
> > > on the system that use OAF and bonobo.
> > >
> > > 4841    oafd
> > >
> > > $ wombat
> > > wombat-Message: Starting wombat
> > >
> > > Then when I start evolution:
> > > syss017h:/home/murphyk $ evolution
> > >
> > > evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: 
> > > (IDL:Bonobo/Moniker/InterfaceNotFound:1.0)
> > >
> > > Still no go.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > K Murphy
> > > murphyk gdls com
> > >
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