[Evolution] "Cannot initialize the Ximian shell" after "su"

[Andrew Green]

You really ought to visit the archive of the evolution list.  This has 
been discussed heavily and solved by many.

Andrew

Gerald Champagne wrote:

>I'm running Evolution 1.01 and it does not want to start if you run it
>after su'ing from someone else's account.  This is very reproducible by
>doing the following:
>
>- Log in at gdm as someone else. (don't know if will do here)
>- Open a terminal
>- su - <your account>
>- evolution&
>
>The command line shows:
>
>evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on
>wombat: (IDL:
>OAF/GeneralError:1.0)
>
>And a dialog appears saying:
>
>Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell:  Configuration Database
>not found
>
>If I run oaf-slay and then try again it works.  I searched Bugzilla
>found bug 19329, but I'm not sure if what I found is the same thing.  Is
>this a known issue or should I open another bug report?  Can anyone else
>duplicate this?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Gerald
>
>
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