On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:44 am, Lou Ruppert wrote: > Ignoring the irony of asking people to email about whether their email > has died, has anyone had any problems like the following?: > > When I updated my Sarge apt packages last night, upgrading from > evolution 1.x to 2.x, the conversion process hung during the contacts > conversion. I tried it eight or nine times before simply blowing away > my configuration entirely (removing ~/evolution, .evolution, > .gconf/apps/evolution, and rebooting just to be safe). I was then able > to start evolution, but if I try to hit 'reply' or compose a new > message, the whole application dies. > > Thinking there was a curse on my environment, I created another user and > tried the same thing, getting the same results. Any attempt to > communicate with the outside world via Evolution 2 is met with severe > punishment. > > Wondering if maybe my system was wedged in some way beyond my > understanding, I went to a client's laptop I've been installing with the > until-now-perfectly-stable Sarge setup, and tried the same things. In > one case, where the user was brand new, it started more or less stably, > but in the case where I converted from his previous files (evolution > 1.x) evolution didn't hang during the conversion, but crashed on startup > afterwards, and then every subsequent time I attempted it. > > So, my question is, does anyone know how to get the wretched thing to > work, or to file a more formal set of bug reports? I can only use my > web-based email for so long before my eyeballs begin to bleed. > > > -Lou > (off to try Thunderbird instead on his friend's machine.) > -- > NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. > http://neomail.sourceforge.net ================================================== Last time I checked, yesterday, there was a known issue that was a missing library for evolution 2.xx in Debian. It will likely be available later unless you want to try to find it and install it by hand. -- John Foster
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