problems with fresh gnome-2.8.1 installation

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ To gnome at freebsd.org <fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar> (12.Nov.2004 14:41):
|
| - evolution does not launch. Clicking on the evolution icon
|   or just executing /usr/X11R6/bin/evolution does not work.
|   In the first case, the cursor turns to a watch for a while
|   and then turns again into an arrow. In all cases two
|   processes are run, and these keep running forever:
|   evolution-2.0
|   /usr/X11R6/libexec/evolution-data-server-1.0 --oaf-activate-iid=OAF
|   The first process is always shown topmost by top(1):
|   
| PID USERNAME   PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME    WCPU    CPU COMMAND
| 80846 fernan   64   0  24856K 15172K RUN      2:30  97.51% 97.46% evolution-2.
|
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now replying to myself. I'm reading in the evolution manual
that it should create a .evolution directory when it starts
up. FWIW I do have a .evolution directory:

[fernan at pi] ls -lR ~/.evolution/
total 100
drwxr-xr-x  3 fernan  fernan    512 Nov 12 10:59 calendar
-rw-------  1 fernan  fernan  65536 Nov 11 17:53 cert8.db
-rw-------  1 fernan  fernan      0 Nov 12 14:26 key3.db
-rw-------  1 fernan  fernan  65536 Nov 11 17:53 secmod.db
drwxr-xr-x  3 fernan  fernan    512 Nov 12 10:59 tasks

/home/fernan/.evolution/calendar:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x  2 fernan  fernan  512 Nov 12 10:59 config

/home/fernan/.evolution/calendar/config:

/home/fernan/.evolution/tasks:
total 2
drwxr-xr-x  2 fernan  fernan  512 Nov 12 10:59 config

/home/fernan/.evolution/tasks/config:


However, I still don't see any window appear ... Now the
manual also says that the first time that evolution is used,
a wizard should come up to help enter the personal
information, etc. Maybe is this application that is failing
to be launched/found? Anyone knows if it's a separate
application?

Fernan

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