Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 2/28/07, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) <David.Nelson2@astrazeneca.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Ausmus [mailto:james.ausmus@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 28 February 2007 08:45
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?
> >
> >
> > On 2/27/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >    I've got a machine that will no longer run Evolution.
> > For whatever
> > > reason all versions of Evolution in Portage crash. I cannot
> > as of yet
> > > get a backtrace to determine why. Even if I could a fast solution
> > > would depend on other folks seeing what's wrong and telling
> > me how to
> > > fix it by recompiling some library or something.
> > <snip>
> >
> > Have you tried running a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there's
> > anything broken? Do you know what triggered the crashing behavious -
> > did an update get run, did something new get emerged, did some ebuild
> > get unmerged?
> >
> > HTH-
> >
> > James
>
> I'd second the revdep-rebuild solution. It's best knowing why it crashed rather than ignoring it in case it starts taking down other applications as well.
>
> A quick google however found:
>
> - Importing contacts to Thunderbird. USE THE SCRIPT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
> http://www.mepis.org/node/2916
>
> - Importing emails (Evo doesnt have to be working...)
> http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/10/1446217&tid=37&tid=101 (although this is from 2004)
>
>
> As always, YMMV.

Thanks. Yes, I'm completely through the emerge -DuN world,
revdep-rebuild process. No help there. Evolution continues to crash.
We were running Evolution 2.4. Unfortunately it's no longer in
portage. I've built every unmasked and masked version in portage and
they all crash. BugBuddy pops up but the backtrace is useless since
there is no debugging info. I'm going to rebuild the who machine from
scratch (emerge -e system, emerge -e world) to see if I get lucky.

Anyway, thanks. We're happy to look at Thunderbird if it might work.

- Mark
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list