On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:36, guenther wrote: > cheers(); > > > Sometimes, I am a person of awesome stupidity. I changed my uid while > > I was logged in with all kinds of applications running, and now I > > can't switch to any of my mail folders. (Actually, it's amazing that > > just evolution got screwed up.) I can open my contacts and calendar, > > but when I click on a mail folder name, the highlight bounces back to > > Contacts. Is there anything I can do about this, or do I have to wipe > > out my whole ~/evolution/ tree and start over? > > You changed your uid? So you are right now logged in with the *new* uid? > > I suggest the following: > > - log out > - as root run: > % chmod -R user.group /home/user/ > > That sets the uid (and gid) to your new ones.
I did that, but while I was logged in under my old uid. :-( > After that, ensure there are all other files of your <user> changed, > too. You should remove all files/dirs in /tmp/ that belongs to the old > uid. Right! I had forgotten about those files in /tmp. I chown'ed all the files owned by 1000 to my new uid and now things are fine. Thanks VERY much for saving my day. -- Stuart Luppescu -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Chicago -=- CCSR 才文と智奈美の父 -=- Kernel 2.4.19-xfs-r2 Q: Why should you always serve a Southern Carolina football man soup in a plate? A: 'Cause if you give him a bowl, he'll throw it away. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
