Evolution needs gal-0.21 or above, and until 3/7 (at the lastest) there was an unmasked ebuild satisfying this requirement After an 'emerge rsync' on 3/8 the unmasked gal was down-graded to gal-0.20-r1, and the previously unmasked version wasn't even in the portage tree any more. I found this out after an emerge -u --world. Evolution can't even run with gal-0.20 loaded, and after emerge'ing gal-0.23, I get the following message when evolution starts up: "Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent: The error from the activation system is: Child process did not give an error messsage, unknown failure occured" The main window for evolution comes up, but I can not open any child windows; making it imposible to actually use the thing to send email. Since Evolution 1.2.2 is unmasked, it would be nice to have an unmasked, stable version of gal that actually works with it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner X gtk gnome dvd" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox"
"needs gal-0.21 or above" should read "needs gal-0.22 or above"
It also breaks gnucash and probably gtkhtml (see depedencies)! It' also breaks dev-help, probably because of gtkhtml dependency... when launched from the commande line evolution, gnucash and devhelp display a message saying that they didn't found libgal.so.21
Once gal-0.23 emerged gnucash and devhelp work fine, but evolution gives the symptoms explained by Matthew
alright. 0.22 got cleaned but 0.23 should be stable enough to be marked as stable now. with OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent error, try emerging evolution again and report if it fixes the problem.
oh spank me :) thought i really checked the keywords on the other versions :/
You also might say it's a good idea to recompile everything that depends on gal, as I also had to remerge gtkhtml to get evolution to finally work.
