From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: If e-d-s is built on a machine which supports NPTL (which covers all our build machines), then the included copy of libdb requires NPTL. Unfortunately, if the resulting package is run on a machine which doesn't support NPTL (which can be simulated by setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 , or any value below 2.4.20 based on how our glibc is set up), then the attempt to call env->open in addressbook/backends/file/e-book-backend-file.c will fail, and you get a "Error Loading Addressbook" dialog. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 2. ensure e-d-s isn't running (watch out for panel clocks) 3. restart evolution within this environment, try to open local addressbook Actual Results: "Error Loading Addressbook" dialog Expected Results: Should be able to open it. Additional info:
132236 is a possible duplicate of this
For a possible fix, see: http://toshok.org/libdb-pthread-patch.diff
See also: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65996
Is this actually affecting anyone? I'm going to close this as WONTFIX, if anyone's getting bitten by this, feel free to reopen it.