Le Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:32:05 +0000, Ryan T. Sammartino a �crit : > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:10:52AM +0200, Fr�d�ric Crozat wrote: >> Yes, I'm sure of that.. Evolution is one of the best Email client >> available on Linux and I want to have a fully working evolution when >> people install Evolution package.. >> >> > I have had no end of trouble with evolution. I leave myself logged in all > the time and my wife pops open a terminal and "su"s as herself then runs > evolution to read her e-mail. > > All the time she either has to "oaf-slay" or "rm -rf /tmp/orbit-<userid>" > in order to get the blasted thing to work. I have the latest versions of > all relevent libraries. This problem has been going on for some time > (search the archives of this list).
She should try to "su -" instead of "su", otherwise ORBit and oaf will be screwed.. Even better would be that she use gdm to open a new X connection (check Configuration/Boot, new connection with GDM).. It is not an evolution problem, it is a problem with OAF/ORBit 1 when mixing users.. > Also, evolution does not seem to clean itself up very well. It seems to > always fork new oaf processes and various other things, until one day I > had no more open file descriptors left on my system, and had to kill -9 a > zillion oafd and wombat processes. There should always be 1 oaf process per user.. -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
