Evo crashing on FC2 all of a sudden

[Pasha]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 23:01, Temlakos wrote:
> Let me guess: the crash occurs whenever you hit the Send/Recieve button, 
> or when it automatically tries to send/receive mail in the background, 
> doesn't it?
> 
> Same thing happened to me. Maybe now somebody'll believe me and quit 
> ducking the issue.
> 
> I'm using Mozilla Mail now--bagged it using Synaptic. I tried installing 
> Evo 2.2 (yes, I found an rpm for it), but it has too many dependencies.
> 
> Can't help you about moving the mail or the addresses--the format's all 
> different. Mozilla Mail uses the old ".eml" format, but Evo is strictly 
> XML all the way. As to the contacts, I tried opening a big VCF having 
> all my contacts in it, and all I would up installing were blank cards.
Wrong. Both use an mbox format. Just move an mbox file from your
evolution/local/Inbox folder to
.mozilla/profile-name/somedir.slt/Mail/Local Folders  and restart
mozilla and all your mail is there.

> 
> Anyway, I'd suggest going to bugzilla.redhat.com and leaving a comment 
> on Bug Number 129527. For what it's worth, do what I did: generate a 
> BugBuddy stack trace and leave it as an attachment to the bug. Don't 
> bother complaining to Ximian or Gnome--neither of them will admit that 
> the problem is with their code. Actually, the problem is that the 
> combination breaks with a revision of the library. I guess sometimes 
> dynamically linked libraries don't work. Though they should. (And how 
> come Mozilla's mail client doesn't suffer from the same problem?)
> 
> What keeps happening is that Evo is too sensitive to changes in glibc. 
> Two days ago Gnome changed glibc, and when the Red Hat Network 
> distributed it to all Fedora Core users, and they installed it, Evo croaked.
> 
> You have to do *something*, because if your problem is anything like 
> mine, Evo is useless to you now. You gotta move.
> 
> Temlakos
> 
> Dick Roth wrote:
> 
> >Woke up in the middle of a snow storm without power to my PC.  All is
> >now normal except that Evo 1.4.6, which was installed as part of the FC2
> >install keeps crashing...often.
> >
> >Attempted download of newer version, but Ximian (Novell) doesn't
> >recognize FC2 yet and I can't find Evo rpms on any other source.
> >
> >Thought about moving to Thunderbird, but moving the mail and addresses
> >looks like a major project.
> >
> >Suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Dick
> >
> >
> >  
> >