On 16 Feb 2002 22:04:20 -0600 Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 17:44, Dave Sherman wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am temporarily forced to use Kmail while I try to fix Evolution. This > > is the first time I have ever had trouble with it, and for the life of > > me I can't figure out what is the problem... > > > > When I try to launch Evolution, I get a dialog box with the following > > error message: > > "Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database > > not found." > > > > If I run evolution in debug mode, the following error is generated: > > "evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on > > wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)" > > > > Has anyone seen this before, or know hat to do about it? The rest of my > > Gnome desktop works just fine. I have tried restarting X, I have run > > "killev", I have even rebooted! All to no effect. I am (was) running > > Evolution 1.0.x, don't remember the exact point release number. > > Well, I figured out the problem. I had just upgraded Mozilla from 0.9.7 > to 0.9.8, and Galeon along with it. This installed an incompatible > version of the libnspr4 library, which was causing Evolution to fail. My > final fix was to downgrade back to Mozilla 0.9.7, and Galeon 1.0.2. > > LET EVERYONE BE WARNED!! Evolution 1.0.2 *will* fail with the RedHat RPM > of Mozilla 0.9.8, because of libnspr4. I tried to install a different > RPM (from Mandrake Cooker) of just libnspr4, but Evolution still failed. > Only downgrading Mozilla restored me to a compatible version of > libnspr4. I am aware of a couple of different Mozilla 0.9.8 RPMs for > Mandrake, one in Cooker which won't work because of libpng3 issues (I do > not run a full Cooker system, so I am still using libpng2), and the > other I saw at MandrakeUserOnline.org -- I may give that one a try at a > later date, but for the moment I am just happy to have Evolution back. > > Dave > -- > Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. > Dave, Why not just use the Mozilla tarball as opposed to the RPM install? it's a simple untar and copy of files to install without having to worry about breaking things like Evolution. To my knowledge the only thing that "might" not work would be Galeon. -- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux User 182496 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:05am up 1 day, 11:42, 2 users, load average: 1.15, 0.52, 0.35
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