Re: [Evolution] "Cannot access the Ximian Evolution shell"

[Dmitry Gerasimov <dgerasimov mtu-net ru>]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 08:52, Petri Kanerva wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 16:00, Dmitry Gerasimov wrote: 
> > Hello.
> >
> > I compiled Evolution beta 1.3.2 with --enable-nss=no 
> >
> > When i try to run it (evolution-1.3) in the terminal I get this:
> >
> > current config version is '1.3.0'
> > (Killing old version of Wombat...)
> >
> > and then a message pops up saying "Cannot access the Ximian Evolution
> > shell." When I hit OK it exits.
> >
> > I looked through the lists archive and found people facing the same kind
> > of problem. The solution was to get rid of Mozilla 1.3b. I had 1.3 final
> > release but still downgraded to 1.3a. Evolution still exits with the
> > same message.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to fix that?
>
> It can't find the shell. Had the same problem.
> Find where in your systhem you have GNOME_Evolution_Shell.server -file.
> It should be in <installation prefix/lib/bonobo/servers
>
> Then add it to bonobo's directory list by:
> bonobo-activation-sysconf --add-directory=<the path to the diretory
> containing the server-file> 
>
> That did it for me. Might be you have to restart gnome for that to take
> effect, can't remember for sure.
>
> Petri

Petri,

Thanks a lot! That worked for me.

Dmitry