Curt: Don't know about Evolution because I use Mozilla Thunderbird, but if I had to guess, I would almost be willing to bet this will be what you are looking for, at least from your description of the problem.
Potential fix ======================================================= 1) Launch HSOconnect and bring the network up, then open a terminal window to verify the file permissions on the "/etc/resolv.conf" file. ls -l /etc/resolv.conf If the mode is 600 (-rw------- )rather than the correct 644 (-rw-r--r-- ) it should be, changing the mode of the file to it's proper setting will provide a quick temporary fix. sudo chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf Firefox and Evolution should then work normally without requiring sudo, but as I said this is only a temporary fix. Every time you bring the network up you would have to change the file mode again. 2) If step 1 above temporarily helped, you can elect to install another package which will provide a permanent fix. sudo apt-get install resolvconf I have found the HSOconnect tools work best if you also install the resolvconf package to maintain and update the contents of the /etc/resolv.conf file. Without the resolvconf package installed something in the HSOconnect stuff defaults /etc/resolv.conf to 600 every time you use HSOconnect which breaks a lot of network things. As a minimum, I would gracefully shutdown hsoconnect and re-boot after installing resolvconf, but I don't know if this graceful shutdown and reboot is actually required. I don't remember if I re-built and re-installed the HSO packages after I installed the resolvconf package or not. You may need to have the resolvconf package already installed when you build and install the HSO stuff, I just do not remember. This potential resolvconf fix should help Evolution, Firefox and just about any other network application. =================================================== I strongly suspect the above will fix your problem. If this really is the problem then the breakage is a lot bigger than just Evolution and Firefox. If this does not fix it, I have something else you can try which is Firefox specific. Later Pat Hickel -- USB device insertion causes total system lockup on Ubuntu 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs