Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.6.2 ... I just want to cry...

[kar <kar ramblingredneck com>]

Thanks .. I've downgraded to the original FC5 rpms (rpm -Uvh
--oldpackage <list>) and everything is as it was, even calendar.  I wish
my company would use something other than Exchange for mail ...

 
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 09:24 -0700, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> Me as well on Fedora Core 5.. What I did to downgrade was install these
> RPMs:
>
> evolution-2.6.0-1.i386.rpm
> evolution-connector-2.5.92-1.i386.rpm
> evolution-data-server-1.5.92-1.i386.rpm
> gnome-panel-2.14.0-1.i386.rpm
> gnome-pilot-2.0.13-7.fc5.4.i386.rpm
> kdepim-3.5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
> kdepim-devel-3.5.1-1.2.i386.rpm
> pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.5.2.1.i386.rpm
> pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.5.2.1.i386.rpm
>
> There may be more, I've had to do this a few times now as I kept seeing
> updates to evolution packages and trying them.
>
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:05 -0400, kar wrote:
> > I'm having issues after upgrading with yum too.
> >
> > Anyone know how to roll back to the previous version?
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 06:46 -0700, Shawn Badger wrote:
> > > I have similar problems with evolution. My exchange connector was
> > > working ok  with a few crashes every other day, until I installed 2.6.2.
> > > After that the exchange portion didn't crash, but maybe that was because
> > > every time I clicked into an exchange folder evolution would crash. I
> > > did a yum install evolution* out of desperation and installed all the
> > > debug and dev packages. So far no problems other than I can't seem to be
> > > able to open any bodies shared calenders yet.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 14:34 +0200, Ãyvind Gjerstad wrote:
> > > > On 6/9/06, Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:53 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > > > > > <violin>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 I got Evolution 2.6.1. The
> > > > > > exchange-connector was broken. Actually it was libsoup that was broken.
> > > > > > I stuck with it anyway, though. I found that if I restarted Evolution
> > > > > > often enough that it would eventually come up. It was very frustrating.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Several days ago libsoup was fixed and life was finally good! No more
> > > > > > crashes! On that same day 2.6.2 was also released but it had trouble
> > > > > > installing due to dependencies. My global address book was still broken
> > > > > > so I looked forward to the dependencies being resolved in hopes that not
> > > > > > only would it be stable but it would work like it used to before the
> > > > > > upgrade.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Well 2.6.2 went on and everything has gone down the drain again. Right
> > > > > > now, my machine is running at 100% busy doing what appears to be
> > > > > > nothing. If that were not the case then I would see it either filtering
> > > > > > or downloading and stalling forever. Attempts to close the application
> > > > > > gracefully fail. It simply ignores the fact that I click on the "X". I
> > > > > > want to scream.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It has gone from extremely bad to pretty good to absolutely unusable.
> > > > > > The progression should be from really good towards excellent. Not this
> > > > > > rollercoaster ride at the bottom end of acceptability.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there not some way to keep this from happening? I am a devoted user
> > > > > > but this is becoming intolerable.
> > > > >
> > > > > It might be that you've got miss-matched versions of evolution and its
> > > > > backend components after the upgrade (i.e. the backends are still the
> > > > > ones running from 2.6.1).  Try doing 'evolution --force-shutdown' in a
> > > > > terminal and restarting evo to see if it's any better.
> > > >
> > > > I upgraded my FC5 installation with yum update (to evo 2.6.2) . I'm
> > > > also using exchange connector, and now I don't get any new mails! To
> > > > be more precise, the folder (Inbox) lists unread messages, but they do
> > > > not appear in the message pane. If I quit evolution and restart I get
> > > > those mails, but mails that arrive after that are just listed in the
> > > > number behind Inbox.
> > > >
> > > > As fas as I can tell all my Evolution components are 2.6.2. I have
> > > > also restarted everything (and also rebooted).
> > > >
> > > > How do I debug this?
> > >
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kar <kar ramblingredneck com>