Sunbird native port does nothing?

[Pete Slagle]

On March 2, 2006 Eric Schuele wrote:

> Anyone using the deskutils/sunbird (not deskutils/linux-sunbird)?

[...]

> I did the normal "make install clean" in the appropriate dir (everything
> went well).  Running it for the first time, I see the process in top,
> and it writes a bit to the console, but then exits.  All subsequent
> attempts to run it result in the following at the console:
> 
>     Starting calendar alarm service
>     error creating table cal_calendars -- probably already exists
>     error creating table cal_calendars_prefs -- probably already exists
>     observer added
>     observer removed
> 
> and the process exits.


All the above still seems to be the case, and I did not see a reply to
the original post, hence this retry.

A process is started

     /usr/X11R6/libexec/gconfd-2 32

with no apparent effect which sits around until killed.

Anyone know how to make it do something useful?