Sunbird native port does nothing?

[Eric Schuele]

On 07/06/2006 14:02, Pete Slagle wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> 

IIRC, the trick was to run it once as root.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Eric