Re: evolution 2.0 broken on sarge
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:44 am, Lou Ruppert wrote:
> 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.)
> --
> NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much.
> http://neomail.sourceforge.net
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Last time I checked, yesterday, there was a known issue that was a missing
library for evolution 2.xx in Debian. It will likely be available later
unless you want to try to find it and install it by hand.
--
John Foster
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