Re: [Evolution] Trashed my Evo installation

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni billy demon nl>]

guenther wrote:

> > I repaired everything but Evo (it's looking for things I can't find.). I 
> > now have 2 completely different gtk+ versions available in parallel, 
> > gtk+-2.2.1 and gtk+-1.2.10-ximian.31. I can choose which I want for 
> > compiles - I much prefer gtk+-2.2.1, it's faster and prettier.
>
> I believe, Evolution 1.2.x needs the gtk+-1.2 libraries.

The 2.2 stuff is all in /usr/local, the 1.2 in /usr. However, the 
 gtk install needed a lot of supporting libraries, including a 
new glib. Making and installing an rpm for this wiped out the old 
glib.

> What are the error messages?
> Have you tried with debugging enabled?

Got a bit further this morning, yes. Running evolution-mail and 
evolution-addressbook from a term as myself (strace SO to a file 
and lessing) showed the new glib playing up. Relevant bits:

getuid32()                              = 500 (500 is uid tonye)

connect(3, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 
110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)

write(2, "getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No "..., 46getpwuid_r(): 
failed due to: No such user 500.) = 46

I started nscd but it's is not viable to run nscd on my machine, 
since it ruins ldap searches after a while. However, 
evolution-mail started up then. But evolution-addressbook and 
calendar don't start up - I'm left with no ldap or contact folders.

Doing ldd on the Evo binaries show clearly that it's found and is 
using the new glib.

I might say that no other utilities but xmms (which now gives a 
segv fault) has any problems, but a couple I had to recompile. I 
compiled a new xmms and supporting libs, but it didn't help.

> > I had to get Mozilla 1.3b working for mail PDQ (filters and all), all my 
> > mail is in IMAP anyway, so I'm none the worse off.
>
> Mozilla 1.3 (final) ist released for weeks, 1.4 beta is current. ;-)

Probably. I have a dialup connection and have to ration myself.

> > Having got this far, I don't really want to get back to where I was. 
> > What I'd like to do, is have a go at compiling Evo 1.3. Is this 
> > reasonably possible for mortals? Could Guenther please comment?
>
> For the split of a second I could see a glow enlightening the room, as
> my karma grows and all the mysteries of the universe suddenly became so
> clear to me... ;-)

The mystery of the Universe was revealed many years ago by 
Douglas Adams. For the rest, I know what you are capable of and 
we know each other :-)

> Sorry Tony, never tried compiling Evolution myself. I always wanted to,
> seems like a reasonable start.
>
> Have you considered giving the RH 8.0 packages a shot, as your 7.2 box
> is highly updated? (seems to be the first RH system with 1.3.92 RPMs)
>  ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution-beta/redhat-80-i386

No.  A lot of the RH 8 stuff would fail on Gnome and KDE 
dependencies.

>  Why is RH 7.2 so important to you, if I may ask?

I have a stable notebook with an awful lot of Internet server 
stuff on it that I have to demonstrate. If I were to install from 
new, a: it would take weeks, and b: I'd insist on a new machine 
to do it on. then it would be RH 9, with all the problems that gives.

Thanks, Guenther!

Tony


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