From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Epiphany/1.1.12 Description of problem: After upgrading from Fedora Core 2 Test 1 to Test 2 Evolution stopped working saying that it could not find libgal. An apt-get --fix-missing later and it was uninstalled and cannot be reinstalled because of missing libsoup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-1.5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC2 T1 2.Upgrade to FC2 T2 3.Try to Launch Evolution Actual Results: evolution stopped working Expected Results: being able to read my e-mail Additional info:
This is because FC2 T2 doesn't ship with 1.5.x it reverts back to 1.4.6 in order to make the migration backwards follow this post http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2004-February/035535.html which is a complete headache. You can get the latest builds though from Jeremy Katz site. just update yum.conf to... [evolution] name=Evolution snaps basurl=http://people.redhat.com/katzj/evolution/ But this is not a bug.
Ok, so why was it that evolution-1.4 wouldn't even launch on my FC2 T2 installation?
because if you used evolution-1.5 in test 1 It did an update on all your files to convert them to the new format in 1.5. If you carried that same /home/%user/.evolution profile over to the test 2 install 1.4.6 doesn't know how to read these new formats and would crash. this is my guess at what is happening. (Just as guess) You can always run evolution from the command line and it should produce some out put for you to give you a starting block.
I'm having the same problems with evolution. I have 1.5.3-1 from test 2, and that's the version I still have. Upgrading to test 2 did not downgrade my copy. When I run it from the command line I get the following error: [sleepylight@host65-239 ~]$ evolution evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libgal-2.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory libgal2 is installed in version 1.99.11-1 on my system, but as part of that version there isn't any file called libgal-2.2.so.0. I guess maybe this was removed from test2. I think I found an rpm that provides it from the Ximian group off of rpmfind.net, so I'm going to give that a shot.
I'm sorry that this bug hasn't been looked at in a while. The test builds of evolution referred to above are getting pretty old now, evolution-1.5.94.1 is in rawhide (and evolution-2.0.0 should arrive in the next few days; it's pretty stable for me). So are any of you still having problems with this (can I help?), or can I close this bug?
I think this can be closed. it's been working fine for me
That's good to hear - resolving as WORKSFORME.