[Evolution] Checked FAQ - something weird is going on (addressbook upgrade issues)

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

sounds like some past install of evolution did not link with
libdb3-3.1.17 (did you build your own and force it to link with some
other version?)

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 00:55, Dan Marker wrote:
> I couldn't access my old contacts information created from evo-1.0.8
> (redcarpet installation on RH-6.2) and RTF-FAQ but something weird is
> occurring.
> 
> A file test on addressbook.db returns
>  "addressbook.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order)"
> with no version.
> 
> db_dump185 returns "Invalid argument" if I use it on the file.
> 
> The standard db_load/db_dump files on my system read/write the file
> without complaint, but Evolution still errors on the file.
> 
> Just to be sure, I downloaded
>    evo-db3-3.1.17.0.200302211500-0.snap.ximian.1
> and the load/dump also executes w/o error using those binaries, but the
> resulting file also cannot be read by Evolution.
> 
> currently, I have Evolution 1.4.4 installed via redcarpet, and my  BDB
> files are from db3-3.3.11-6
> 
> system has been heavily patched, originally RH-6.2 and has been cobbled
> and patched but should be fully equivalent to RH-8.0 now
> 
> What did I do to my system and can I at least extract plaintext out of
> my old addressbook?
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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