Bug 76366
Summary: | Evolution error "Cannot initialize the Evolution shell. Database configuration file not found" (or something like that) | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <redhat> | ||||
Component: | evolution | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 8.0 | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | athlon | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
URL: | http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=U*SEDdsg&p_lva=&p_faqid=54&p_created=996019414&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTcyJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPTImcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li= | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2003-02-10 02:57:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-10-20 22:35:59 UTC
When this happens can you run wombat from a terminal successfully? If that works, can you attach the output of `ls -lR /tmp/orbit-username*' and then see if removing /tmp/orbit-username fixes the problem? Created attachment 81226 [details]
Terminal output of ls -lR /tmp/orbit-username
I can run wombat after I get the Evolution error message. And if I remove the /tmp/orbit-p directory, Evolution fires up just fine. So what's up with that? It seems that deleting the tmp/orbit-username directory has the side effect of causing gedit to crash on startup. Logging out and then back in fixes that problem. I have this problem also. Here is some additional information. The problem occurs when I run evolution, iconify it, and log out WITHOUT EXITING evolution. If I then login again and start evolution, I get the "Cannot initialize the Evolution shell. Database configuration file not found" message. I can produce this reliably 100% of the time on one machine and never on another. When the problem occurs oafd is running, wombat is not running. Killing oafd solves the problem. So does removing /tmp/orbit-user. A workaround I have used is to put "killall oafd 2>/dev/null" in ~/.bash_profile. Haven't seen with newer orbit/oaf/evolution in rawhide |