On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 09:37, Grant Rutherford wrote: [snip] > > > >try the following commands in a terminal, after quitting evolution: > > > >cd > >evolution --force-shutdown > > There was an error with this command: > > Error on option --force-shutdown: unknown option. > Run 'evolution --help' to see a full list of available command line options. >
this means you aren't running evolution 1.4, you must be trying to run an old version. `killev` is the equivalent command on older versions. > >gconftool-2 --shutdown > >mv .gconf/apps/evolution/mail .gconf/apps/evolution/mail.save > > This folder doesn't exist on my apps directory (/evolution). Will I have to > get root access to do this? again, old version. killall -9 bonobo-moniker-xmldb (or some such, `ps aux` to find the actual process name) then `mv ~/evolution/config.xmldb ~/evolution/config.xmldb.save` > > >gconftool-2 --spawn > >evolution > > > >It will ask you to setup an account from scratch again, which you will > >have to re-enter. > > > >If things still don't work right, and you had any errors from the above > >commands other than the shutdown ones, paste them here. > > > >NOTE! This will effectively 'remove' or 'reset' all of your accounts, > >so you will be reprompted to set up a new one. They are backed up in > >mail.save if you need to return to them, basically repeat the above > >commands but reverse the mv command after removing the existing mail > >directory first. > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Grant > > > > > > > > > >From: Not Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: Grant Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Subject: Re: [Evolution] Help! No email folders available! > > > >Date: 17 Jul 2003 10:39:55 +0930 > > > > > > > >On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 02:15, Grant Rutherford wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the ideas... I just tried quitting evolution and KDE and > > > > > removing all files from the /tmp/orbit-grant directory. I then > >started > > > >KDE > > > > > and evolution again, and have noticed no change. (Although some new > > > >files > > > > > have been created in that directory) > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible that the server still thinks that I am logged on to > > > > > evolution, so it won't allow a 'second' login? > > > > > > > >No probably not, you'd get different errors I think. > > > > > > > >Does running this (in a terminal) produce any output? > > > > > > > >gconftool-2 -R /apps/evolution/mail > > > > > > > >Could you attach it to a private email to me if it does. > > > > > > > >If it doesn't then gconf is really unhappy about something, and i'm not > > > >sure where you'd go from here. > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > >_______________________________________________ > >evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
