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