From: zak d. (mkr137@hate_spam.psu.edu)                                        
Subject: Re: Anyone get Evolution 0.8 working?                                 
Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel                                                 
Date: 2001-01-05 15:32:47 PST                                                  

In article <20010102175658.BC3481FF223@perens.com>, bruce@perens.com 
wrote:

> Subject: Anyone get Evolution 0.8 working? Message-ID: 
> 
> I built gtkhtml 0.8 and evolution 0.8 on unstable. Evolution says "Can't
> initialize the Evolution shell". This appears to be a CORBA problem.
> Before I dive in, has anyone else dealt with it?
> 
>       Thanks
> 
>       Bruce

I had exactly the same problem. It turned out that I had oaf and some
other libraries installed in two different places (my whole system is a
mess, I'm building things from cvs, then I'm installing stable packages
in different places, forgetting which one is which, kind of pathetic).
Check the order with which evolution calls those packages at startup and
make sure it calls the right ones. If I remember correctly for me
Evolution was running as root, so I su'ed to root and then checked oafd,
etc with 'which whatever' and then did the same as a normal user and
compared both. After removing the unwanted libraries everything started
working.
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