I am currently running Redhat 8.0 on a computer at home. I connect to it from work via VNC to check my email, because my ISP does not allow outside connections. So, I have this all set up and running. It works like a charm.

Then my wife wanted to be able to do the same thing. So, I start up a VNC server for her on the RH8.0 box and get her connected. She starts up Evolution and I enter all our email info. She downloads her email and all is well. So, then she wants to change the resolution on her VNC desktop. So I log in via SSH and kill the VNC server... then I restart it at a lower resolution for her.

Now, when she tries to start Evolution she gets the following error:

"Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Confiiguration Database not found."


I've done a few minutes of looking around to find a solution to this issue. The only thing that sounded like it related to my problem was someone suggesting that perhaps "wombat" wasn't running. Now, I don't know what wombat is, so I did a whereis to see if I had it. Sure enough it was there. So I did a ps -ef | grep wombat to see if it was running, and it wasn't. So I tried to run it... then all it said was "Starting wombat" or something like that and stopped. Without closing that shell I tried running Evolution again, but to no avail.

The strange thing is that during all of this, my email still works just fine. Thus, the only thing that I can figure is that there is perhaps a permission issue here? I don't know. I'm a newbie to this. Can anyone help me?

Okay, I just tried setting up email on my root account as well. It had the same problem my wife's account had. It worked after the initial setup, but when I restarted VNC, it started giving the same error message. Now the only account that has email working correctly is my personal account.

The only connection I can see here is that my personal account was not set up remotely via VNC. It was set up locally at the computer. Any ideas what could be causing all of this?

make a script with this code in it:


#!/bin/sh

killev
oaf-slay

exec evolution


This should solve your problem.

also I forgot,

run this script to launch evolution. Mine worked fien after using this script.