[Evolution] non-email folders broken in debian SID beta5 package

Joe Barnett jbarnett@Stanford.EDU
17 Oct 2001 18:11:39 -0700


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This is apparently an incompatibility with the debian gconf1.0.5
packages.  downgrading gconf and libgconf11 and libgconf-dev to 1.0.4
fixed the problem.

-Joe

On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:23, Joseph Levi Barnett wrote:
> In addition, after I get my black calendar/task views, if I try again to
> go to the relevant component, I get the oops: crashed message, followed b=
y
> a crash of the evolution process.  ALso,  evolution-calendar is NOT a=20
> running process at any time during my evolution sessions.  I have nothing
> but evolution, evolution-mail, and evolution-addressbook running. =20
> the program spits no error messages out to the commandline, as well.
>=20
> I'd include backtraces, but the debian packages appear to be compiled=20
> without debugging symbols, so I'm not sure what good they would do.
>=20
> relatedly, how does one include debugging symbols when one does a compile
> of evolution.  My former CVS builds also had no debugging information=20
> compiled in :-(  what setting in configure or makefiles do i have to set?
>=20
> THanks,
> Joe
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>=20
> On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:05, shadoi wrote:
> > Not much help, but I'm also running the Debian sid beta5 packages and
> > don't have this problem.
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 22:14, Joseph Levi Barnett wrote:
> > > yo.
> > >=20
> > > Due to recent instabilities in CVS, I've decided to downgrade to beta=
5.=20
> > > being a debian user, I grabbed the evolution-ssl package out of SID/n=
on-us
> > > after make uninstalling the CVS gal,gtkhtml, and evolution modules.  =
I even
> > > went so far as to apt-get install --reinstall relevant packages depen=
ded on by=20
> > > evolution.
> > >=20
> > > Now I can receive mail without freezing evolution, and this made me h=
appy :)
> > >=20
> > > however, when I click on calendar or tasks view, all I get is a white=
 evolution
> > > pane, and an empty toolbar.  clicking on addressbook causes CPU to sp=
ike for
> > > 30-60 seconds, after which my selection defaults back to the previous=
ly=20
> > > selected item (as if i had clicked on 'local folders' in the tree vie=
w).
> > >=20
> > > Since addressbook is broken, the To: CC: and Bcc: fields in my compos=
er view
> > > have no text entry box, and I cannot send emails because I cannot tel=
l=20
> > > evolution where to send emails to (email address data is lost when i =
try to
> > > reply to an email, so there is NO way for me to send emails anywhere =
using
> > > evolution at this point).
> > >=20
> > > does anyone have any ideas as to where I should look to fix these iss=
ues? =20
> > > barring that, I'll just wait for a nice functional CVS version to rea=
ppear
> > > from the depths of developerland :)  I have had the debian packages f=
or
> > > beta 5 work in the past, but perhaps something has changed since then=
? =20
> > > It's my understanding that these beta releases SHOULD be relatively s=
table,
> > > but I understand the product is in ongoing development, blah blah, et=
c. :),=20
> > > I was just wondering if anyone knew where I could look to try to fix =
these
> > > problems.
> > >=20
> > > Thanks
> > > -Joe
> > >=20
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
> > --=20
> >     ._.-shadoi-._.
> > http://soulmachine.com
> > "Victims, aren't we all?"
>=20
>=20
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