Evolution Woes and yum magic

Kris Buytaert — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:54:33 +0000

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 ..

yum shell
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, ps, puppetverify, refresh-packagekit
> remove gcr
> install gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18
adobe-linux-x86_64                                       |  951 B     00:00     
fedora/18/x86_64/metalink                                |  31 kB     00:00     
google-chrome                                            |  951 B     00:00     
google-earth                                             |  951 B     00:00     
google-talkplugin                                        |  951 B     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.3 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                                | 3.3 kB     00:00     
updates/18/x86_64/metalink                               |  24 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db                          | 279 kB   00:01     
> run
 --> Running transaction check
---> Package gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-1.fc18 will be installed
---> Package gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-3.fc18 will be erased
 --> Finished Dependency Resolution
 
 ================================================================================
  Package       Arch             Version                Repository          Size
 ================================================================================
  Installing:
   gcr           x86_64           3.6.2-1.fc18           fedora             627 k
  Removing:
    gcr           x86_64           3.6.2-3.fc18           @updates           2.3 M
 
    Transaction Summary
 ================================================================================
  Install  1 Package
  Remove   1 Package
 
    Total download size: 627 k
    Is this ok [y/N]: y
    Downloading Packages:
    gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm                                | 627 kB   00:02     
    Running Transaction Check
    Running Transaction Test
    Transaction Test Succeeded
    Running Transaction
      Installing : gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64                                      1/2 
      Cleanup    : gcr-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64                                      2/2 
      Verifying  : gcr-3.6.2-1.fc18.x86_64                                      1/2 
      Verifying  : gcr-3.6.2-3.fc18.x86_64                                      2/2 
           Removed:
              gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-3.fc18                                                     
           Installed:
             gcr.x86_64 0:3.6.2-1.fc18                                                     
 
               Finished Transaction
                > quit
             > Leaving Shell

Solved the problem

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - gmail

Evolution Woes and yum magic