[CentOS] Update broke Evolution

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sun Feb 25 22:34:09 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 15:23 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 15:37 -0500, P Marvin Eberly wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 15:29 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 15:24 -0500, P Marvin Eberly wrote:
> > > > > ><snip>
> > > > > There is a fix that works as a work around until another solution is
> > > > > done, which is to create this symbolic link:
> > > > > 
> > > > > cd /usr/lib
> > > > > 
> > > > > ln -s firefox-1.5.0.10/libfreeb13.so .
> > > > > 
> > > > > Having libfreeb13.so in /usr/lib allows evolution to start ... removing it
> > > > > prevents it from starting.
> > > > Sorry guys, this didn't fix it here. What is the proper way to undo this
> > > > link I made?
> > > 
> > > cd /usr/lib
> > > rm libfreeb13.so
> > 
> > Thanks, Bill.
> > Done
> 
> Hmmm .... I tested this fix on serveral machines including 2 rhel4 ones
> and even a couple with firefox-2 and they all worked ok.
> 
> Not sure what the difference was on that end (that is ... what things
> you might be running or not running that effected the situation).

For anyone having a problem with a symlink ... copying the file
into /usr/lib works as well.
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