On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 23:48, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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 > Sorry, forgot to mention that I did that, however, I'm getting my name resolution from DNS. I added the entries to /etc/hosts (no blank lines, etc..) and it made no difference. > > > > 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 -- John Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- John Harlow, President BravePoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (770)449-9696 Fax: (770) 449-9003 www.BravePoint.com Progress,Web and Java Specialists
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