evolution 2.0 broken on sarge
Ignoring the irony of asking people to email about whether their email
has died, has anyone had any problems like the following?:
When I updated my Sarge apt packages last night, upgrading from
evolution 1.x to 2.x, the conversion process hung during the contacts
conversion. I tried it eight or nine times before simply blowing away
my configuration entirely (removing ~/evolution, .evolution,
.gconf/apps/evolution, and rebooting just to be safe). I was then able
to start evolution, but if I try to hit 'reply' or compose a new
message, the whole application dies.
Thinking there was a curse on my environment, I created another user and
tried the same thing, getting the same results. Any attempt to
communicate with the outside world via Evolution 2 is met with severe
punishment.
Wondering if maybe my system was wedged in some way beyond my
understanding, I went to a client's laptop I've been installing with the
until-now-perfectly-stable Sarge setup, and tried the same things. In
one case, where the user was brand new, it started more or less stably,
but in the case where I converted from his previous files (evolution
1.x) evolution didn't hang during the conversion, but crashed on startup
afterwards, and then every subsequent time I attempted it.
So, my question is, does anyone know how to get the wretched thing to
work, or to file a more formal set of bug reports? I can only use my
web-based email for so long before my eyeballs begin to bleed.
-Lou
(off to try Thunderbird instead on his friend's machine.)
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