[CentOS] Re: Update broke Evolution

Mon Feb 26 00:16:35 UTC 2007
P Marvin Eberly <eberlyml at wjtl.net>

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!

  P Marvin Eberly


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