[CentOS] Re: Update broke Evolution

[P Marvin Eberly]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 19:16 -0500, P Marvin Eberly wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:01 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:34:09 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Got it!  Folks, it is not libfreeb13.so but libfreebl3.so (the letter l,
> > not number 1).  
> > 
> > [OT] Hey, Johnny, you mentioned earlier that if you could type you would
> > be dangerous.  So, this is what you meant... :-) :-)
> 
> Akemi, thank you for figuring this out. This fixes the problem on my one
> machine and I suspect it will on the second also.
> 
> This list rocks!
> 
I forgot to mention that I did add a note to point this out on the bug
ticket.


> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1694
> 
> 
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P Marvin Eberly <eberlyml at wjtl.net>