Evolution fails to ask for password giving total freeze

[John Austin]

On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 11:40 +0000, John Austin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Hoping someone can help - my main app is failing!
> 
> Following a recent update evolution no longer functions
> 
> An error is given in orange window
> 
> "Error while performing operation
> IMAP command failed: Please login first"
> 
> This is normal, however no Popup Window is given to permit login
> 
> Evo is then frozen
> 
> On a second machine that I have not updated today evo is fine, the popup
> appears
> (This is using the same system login and mail account, ldap and NFS4)
> ie same home directory and hence the same ~/.config/evolution directory
> 
> yum update on the working machine shows that it wants to update the rpms
> listed below - needless to say I haven't installed the updates on this
> machine
> 
> It's not the kernel as I booted from the previous kernel on the
> failing machine and it still fails
> 
> Any thoughts as to which of the following is the culprit ?
> 
> Has anyone else the same problem ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
> ja at avon ~ 1$ cat yum_list 
> ===============================================
>  Package                 Version               
> ===============================================
> Installing:
>  kernel                  3.7.9-205.fc18        
>  kernel-devel            3.7.9-205.fc18        
> Updating:
>  AdobeReader_enu         9.5.4-1               
>  bind-libs               32:9.9.2-8.P1.fc18    
>  bind-libs-lite          32:9.9.2-8.P1.fc18    
>  bind-license            32:9.9.2-8.P1.fc18    
>  bind-utils              32:9.9.2-8.P1.fc18    
>  crda                    1.1.3_2013.02.13-1.fc1
>  dhclient                12:4.2.5-7.fc18       
>  dhcp-common             12:4.2.5-7.fc18       
>  dhcp-libs               12:4.2.5-7.fc18       
>  diffutils               3.2-12.fc18           
>  dracut                  024-25.git20130205.fc1
>  espeak                  1.46.02-8.fc18        
>  flash-plugin            11.2.202.273-release  
>  gcr                     3.6.2-3.fc18          
>  hwdata                  0.244-1.fc18          
>  initscripts             9.42.2-1.fc18         
>  kernel-headers          3.7.9-205.fc18        
>  libgphoto2              2.5.1.1-1.fc18        
>  libgsf                  1.14.24-2.fc18        
>  libgudev1               197-1.fc18.2          
>  mdadm                   3.2.6-14.fc18         
>  pixman                  0.28.0-1.fc18         
>  pixman                  0.28.0-1.fc18         
>  pixman-devel            0.28.0-1.fc18         
>  shared-mime-info        1.1-1.fc18            
>  systemd                 197-1.fc18.2          
>  systemd-libs            197-1.fc18.2          
>  systemd-libs            197-1.fc18.2          
>  systemd-sysv            197-1.fc18.2          
>  taglib                  1.8-3.20121215git.fc18
>  xscreensaver-base       1:5.21-2.fc18         
>  yum-utils               1.1.31-10.fc18        
> Removing:
>  kernel                  3.7.7-201.fc18        
>  kernel-devel            3.7.7-201.fc18        
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ===============================================
> Install   2 Packages
> Upgrade  32 Packages
> Remove    2 Packages
> 

yum downgrade gcr