Hi Dave, Thanks for the tip; I checked the directory and it is, in fact, 755. Oh well, I'll keep banging on this puppy -- eventually it will be beaten into submission :)
Gil On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 03:32, Dave Allen wrote: > I've seen posts over the last several weeks complaining that for > various reasons, evolution-mail has not been working, usually > resulting in a "Configuration Database not found" error. For me, > Evolution would start, but clicking on the Inbox icon in the shortcut > bar didn't do anything. > > Some people have said that it works as root, but not as a regular > user. I also saw this. > > What happened to me was that the evolution RPM file (for RedHat 7.2 > anyway - not sure about other distros) isn't explicitly setting > permissions on /usr/lib/evolution/camel-providers/1.0, so this > directory was being created as drwx------ on my system. Changing the > permissions on this directory to drwxr-xr-x (and the usual killev ; > oaf-slay bit) fixed it for me. > > Hope this helps somebody out there. > > > -- > Dave Allen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
