[CentOS] Update broke Evolution

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 12:35 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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 to Markku Lehto for this fix:

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.
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