[CentOS] Re: Update broke Evolution

Mon Feb 26 02:18:01 UTC 2007
Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>

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 - always your fan.
>   
Color me abnormally stupid.  It didn't work for me and I finally 
resorted to
# find / -name libfreeb*
and pasted the absolute path, "/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.10/libfreebl3.so" 
to do the symlink without ever noticing the ell/one ambiguity.

Thanks to all!