Re: [Evolution] Heads Up: Debian issues on testing/unstable

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 23:02 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:40 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > So I have been down that road way too often the last week. More than
> > > once on a daily basis is sufficient to post this "just in case"...
> > >
> > > There currently is a known Debian specific issue, biting a lot of users:
> > >
> > > As a first step towards GNOME 2.14 in Debian, glib has been updated from
> > [snip]
> > > know exactly, what I am doing. Every fucking bit matters. And please
> > > don't mind, if I am curt -- until we solved the issue. :)
> >
> > Hi, Guenther.
> >
> > This issue does *not* affect up-to-date Sid users anymore.  -1.1
> > or -2 (forget which) fixed it.
>
> You forgot the caveat about me not being a debian user. What is Sid
> again exactly? ;-)  OK, according to google, this is unstable.
>
> Well, as I mentioned in the OP, this doesn't seem to strike unstable
> users a lot. However, bug 336623 [1] looks like this indeed is an issue
> using 2.4.2.1-2.
>
> Besides this, the evolution-plugins issue stands as well. The separate
> plugins package isn't updated automatically -- updating manually from
> -1.1 to the matching -2 solved this for at least one user on IRC. He was

If evolution-plugins is installed, then "apt-get upgrade" will
auto-upgrade it from -1 or -.1.1 to -2.

> the first one to find out about this. Previously downgrading glib solved
> it for 2 other fellows...
>
> Yeah, a little bit confusing, isn't it?

Not really.

$ evolution --force-shutdown
# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

The key is --force-shutdown.

> Anyway, thanks for the follow up and more details on this, Ron. :)  I'd
> appreciate it, if debian users could post all relevant information to
> come, especially when the fixed packages are out.

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