Re: Clicking 'Tasks' defeat Evolution! What to do?

[Ross Boylan <ross biostat ucsf edu>]

Likely this is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317283

The key item with work-arounds is:

libgal2.4 version 2.4.2-1 (etch's) is buggy.
But libgnomecanvas2-0 version 2.8.0-1 (sarge's) did not use libgal2.4,
that's why the bug disappeared when downgrading.

Also, if you have libgnomecanvas2-0 version 2.10 (etch and sid's), 
and libgal2.4 version 2.4.3-1 (sid's), it works fine.

So, the work-arounds for this bug are:
* downgrade libgnomecanvas2-0 to sarge's version (2.8.0-1)
* upgrade libgal2.4 to sid's version (2.4.3-1).

Once libgal2.4 2.4.3-1 has entered etch, you can have an up-to-date etch
without this bug.

However, if you are pure sarge you shouldn't be seeing the new, buggy library, so your problem may lie 
elsewhere.

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 11:32 +0800, Godfrey Harrison wrote:
> A week ago I was running Evolution, in newly installed Debian GNU Linux 
> 3.1 Sarge, when on my try to find out what "Tasks" does, by clicking on 
> that button, Evolution crashed.   It's been crashing ever since, about 
> five seconds after I start it , despite my efforts to encourage it not 
> to be shy.  This is a specific problem because Mozilla, for example, 
> opens Evolution when one seeks to send some e-mail to its lists.  
> Meanwhile, thank Mozilla for Thunderbird.

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