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Apr 19 2013

Evolution Woes and yum magic

By: Kris Buytaert Tags:

I`m an oldschool guy .. I still love pop3(s) to get my mails locally and read them with my fat email client. Evolution.

So when gmail breaks their pop/imap infra I`m screwed for a while. I hate reading mail from a web gui and the collapsed threading model gmail uses makes me nauseus.

So I fiddled with my config .. disabled it.. deleted the account.. created it again. But even after gmail was up again . I couldn't access my mail from my favourite client. Yet from other clients it seemed to work.

This obviously is real fun when you are travelling and trying to keep an eye on a number of different email threads ..

So I`m back home from Paris now and spend some 10 minutes figuring out what could be wrong.

I ran into https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949180 which points out that for newly created there is a problem with the keyring prompting

And refers to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953641 accounts Which states that gcr-3.6.2-3 breaks password prompt/keyring unlocks.

And indeed .. 

  1. yum shell
  2. Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, ps, puppetverify, refresh-packagekit
  3. > remove gcr
  4. > install gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18
  5. adobe-linux-x86_64                                       |  951 B     00:00     
  6. fedora/18/x86_64/metalink                                |  31 kB     00:00     
  7. google-chrome                                            |  951 B     00:00     
  8. google-earth                                             |  951 B     00:00     
  9. google-talkplugin                                        |  951 B     00:00     
  10. rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.3 kB     00:00     
  11. rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                | 3.3 kB     00:00     
  12. updates/18/x86_64/metalink                               |  24 kB     00:00     
  13. rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db                          | 279 kB   00:01     
  14. > run
  15.  --> Running transaction check
  16. ---> Package gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-1.fc18 will be installed
  17. ---> Package gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-3.fc18 will be erased
  18.  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
  19.  
  20.  ================================================================================
  21.   Package       Arch             Version                Repository          Size
  22.  ================================================================================
  23.   Installing:
  24.    gcr           x86_64           3.6.2-1.fc18           fedora             627 k
  25.   Removing:
  26.     gcr           x86_64           3.6.2-3.fc18           @updates           2.3 M
  27.  
  28.     Transaction Summary
  29.  ================================================================================
  30.   Install  1 Package
  31.   Remove   1 Package
  32.  
  33.     Total download size: 627 k
  34.     Is this ok [y/N]: y
  35.     Downloading Packages:
  36.     gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm                                | 627 kB   00:02     
  37.     Running Transaction Check
  38.     Running Transaction Test
  39.     Transaction Test Succeeded
  40.     Running Transaction
  41.       Installing : gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64                                      1/2 
  42.       Cleanup    : gcr-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64                                      2/2 
  43.       Verifying  : gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64                                      1/2 
  44.       Verifying  : gcr-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64                                      2/2 
  45.            Removed:
  46.               gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-3.fc18                                                     
  47.            Installed:
  48.              gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-1.fc18                                                     
  49.  
  50.                Finished Transaction
  51.                 > quit
  52.              > Leaving Shell

Solved the problem

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