[CentOS] Re: Update broke Evolution

Mon Feb 26 00:01:50 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

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 - always your fan.