Re: [Evolution] Trashed my Evo installation

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > 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

No such user?

Hopefully someone who already compiled Evo 1.3.92 on his own can speak
up. I am afraid, I won't be too much of help for you...


> > > 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.

Very good point. Dial up, poor Tony. DSL flatrate here, download doesn't
bother me... :-)


> > > 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 :-)

Sure, and I would love to help more.

Unfortunately, that's some of the books I always wanted to read. You
don't wanna know, how much unread books are wasting space right beside
me -- neither do I. Maybe I can catch up a little bit the next week,
while I am forced offline...


> > 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.

Think, you are right. Although you really should blame RH for Evolution
dependencies on KDE... ;-)


> >  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.

What about a second partition for your working environment besides the
demo system?


> Thanks, Guenther!

You're welcome, every time again...

...guenther


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