[CentOS] Update broke Evolution

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 08:09 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 00:56 -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:16:40PM -0500, eberlyml at wjtl.net enlightened us:
> > >   Tonights updates seriously broke Evolution as it no longer starts on two 4.4 up-to-date boxes. When I run "evolution" from the cli I get this:
> > > $ evolution
> > > 
> > > (evolution:4865): evolution-smime-WARNING **: Failed all methods for initializing NSS
> > > The updates included firefox, seamonkey, seamonkey-nspr, and seamonkey-nss.
> > > A reboot causes no change,  Any ideas?
> > 
> > This was also reported on the redhat nahant list.
> 
> Thank goodness :P
> 
> Let me look at this, as I had to do some things (take some things out)
> to make my update look like upstream.
> 
> Maybe I can get this working for them :P

OK ... I want to report that I have absolutely confirmed that this is an
upstream issue, and that rebuilding evolution against the new nss/nspr
sources does not fix the problem.

I am still troubleshooting to find a fix ... be advised that the
seamonkey-1.0.8 update was rated "Security Critical" ... but it does
make Evolution unusable for mail.  Shifting back to seamonkey-1.0.7
makes evolution work, but is insecure.  You will all need to make your
own decisions.

> 
> >  The nss update seems to
> > have broken it - backing off to the previous version lets evolution work
> > again. A quick search in bugzilla.redhat.com didn't turn anything up, so you
> > may want to keep an eye on that.

I have submitting an upstream bug report here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229987

we also have a CentOS bug:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1694

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070225/36adb357/attachment.sig>