On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:54, John Harlow wrote: > My Evo (1.4.3) has been working perfectly for me on my SuSE 8.2 box. > > Today Red-Carpet recommended an upgrade on some packages (including > Evolution) and I accepted it. > > After the upgrade I could no longer send mail using SMTP (but sendmail > worked OK.) > > To make a (very) long story short, I downgraded the evolution and > libsoup bits to the previous version and it didn't help. Then I found > some threads discussing the problem with gethostbyaddr_r so I tried > putting the IP address in the hostname field instead of the name. This > solved the problem (although it isn't an acceptable long-term solution > since this is a notebook I am on the road with all of the time, deal > with NAT'd networks, etc...)
another solution is to remove all blank lines and all comments from /etc/hosts > > Once it was working I reinstalled the newer Evo and libsoup bits and it > still worked (using the IP address.) > > This means that one of the other packages I updated today, introduced > the bug. Here is what was updated today (in > /var/cache/redcarpet/packages): > > evolution-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm > gnome-utils2-2.2.3-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > gnome-applets2-2.2.2-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm > evolution-pilot-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm > gtkhtml3.0-3.0.8-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > libbonoboui-2.2.2-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > libsoup-1.99.24-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > libgtkhtml3.0_2-3.0.8-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > libgtop2-2.0.2-0.ximian.7.2.i586.rpm > libgal2.0_5-1.99.9-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > rug-1.4.4-0.ximian.7.1.i586.rpm > gnome-system-monitor-2.0.4-25.ximian.7.5.i586.rpm > oaf-0.6.10-199.ximian.7.6.i586.rpm glibc is the lib with the bugs in gethostbyaddr_r, but that doesn't seem to be in your list so I dunno. Jeff > > Any ideas on which of these packages did the deed? I found library files > in several of them, but I don't know much more than that. > > Thanks > John -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
