Re: [Evolution] Upgrade woes...

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

It is known that Evolution and kernel 2.5.x don't get along, but the
reason is unknown. Something to do with CORBA and data being sent in the
wrong byte order or something? I dunno. It's been discussed on the list
in the past.

Jeff

On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 14:25, Ross Parker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Evolution 1.0.8 on Mandrake 8.2 with KDE version 3.0.2
>
> Everything was fine until I upgrade my kernel. I was running the 2.4.18-6 
> kernel and upgraded to 2.5.25 to get fast IDE support.
>
> Now Evolution will start up ok, and I can do everything EXCEPT create messages 
> -  I can't create new messages or reply. If I try, evolution will hang until 
> I kill the evolution-addressbook process, at which time a compose window will 
> open up but with no 'To' or 'Cc' text entry boxes.
>
> So.... I'm trying to recompile Evolution to see if that'll straighten things 
> out. I'm now getting lost in tiny details, I've installed bonobo-conf and 
> gal, and am trying to compile gtkhtml but am having problems here. The latest 
> (after two days of trying to sort out dependencies) is that I need the Gnome 
> Configuration Applet libraries (capplet). I'm now trying to get 
> control-center installed (as I believe it includes the above libraries), but 
> it's looking for 'gobject-2.0'.
>
> I actually have most of these objects installed already as part of my Mandrake 
> install, however they are not installed with info that gnome-config requires.
>
> First, can anyone explain why evolution started having problems when I 
> upgraded the kernel?
>
> Next, is there a way I can get around the gnome-config issue, i.e. can I 
> supply the proper info to gnome-config for packages that I already have 
> installed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ross
>
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