I made a bonehead mistake (to make a long story short): % rm -f /usr/share/oaf/*.oaf
Now whenever I try to start Evolution I get the dreaded: Cannot initialize the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not found On the command line I see: evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0) So, I uninstalled Evolution and all of Ximian Gnome from my Debian Potato system and reinstalled. Still no luck. Is there some kind of configuration script I need to run now? I found the knowledge base article: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=GzRsdoYf&p_lva=&p_refno=010724-000005&p_created=996019414&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTc1JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li= And following the instructions there: Possible Cause #1: Checking the Path % env | grep PATH PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games % which oafd evolution evolution-mail evolution-calendar /usr/bin/oafd /usr/bin/evolution /usr/bin/evolution-mail /usr/bin/evolution-calendar [After unsuccessfully running evolution:] % ps aux | grep oaf matt 1674 0.0 3.9 2984 1832 ? S 13:34 0:00 oafd --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=9 Possible Cause #2: Broken Bonobo % strings `which oafd` | grep /oaf$ /usr/share/oaf % cd /usr/share/oaf % ls -l GNOME_Evolution_*.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32036 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7487 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_SelectNames.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5500 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_VCard_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27926 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Calendar.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5812 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 585 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Elm_Intelligent_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 607 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_GnomeCard_Intelligent_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23438 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Mail.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5349 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Mail_Mbox_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5792 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Mail_Outlook_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 605 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Netscape_Intelligent_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 589 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Pine_Intelligent_Importer.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2593 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Shell.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2716 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Summary.oaf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8227 Sep 22 12:15 GNOME_Evolution_Wombat.oaf Thanks for any help you can give. Matt _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution