Hi Oleg, Did the latest release of the evolution-data-server fix this problem? Troy Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi Oleg, > I'm hoping that The Upstream Vendor know's about the problem so that it > get's fixed upstream. But I definatly like simple one line fixes. If > it looks like RedHat isn't going to put it in anytime soon, then we'll > put it in testing for a short time, then into errata. > > As for building it. we used the 1.4.8 version of m4. There was several > rpm's that wouldn't build without it. That isn't the version that we > shipped, but we thought we had put the src.rpm in our SRPMS/SL area so > that others could use it. > After checking we saw that it wasn't there, so Connie just put it up > there right now. > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/SRPMS/SL/m4-1.4.8-1.src.rpm > > > Troy > > Oleg Sadov wrote: >> At Sunday Time we spent a lot of time for testing of desktop environment >> in a fresh installation from SL50 and was slightly frustrated by >> crushing of Evolution during startup. In CentOS Evolution started >> without problems (but it has version 2.8.0-33, not 2.8.0-33.0.1). >> >> Further analisys shows dependency of this problem of last evolution- >> data-server timezone description changes. This bug may be reproduced by >> setting TZ environment variable, for example: >> >> TZ=Europe/Moscow evolution >> >> Some of bug-sensitive timezones: >> Russia -- Europe/Moscow, Europe/Volgograd, Asia/Irkutsk >> Indonesia -- Asia/Makassar, Asia/Ujung_Pandang >> Mongolia -- Asia/Ulaanbaatar, Asia/Ulan_Bator >> >> After looking to backtrace & source code debugging I found the root of >> evil -- into the last changes of data-server zoneinfo descriptions >> (evolution-data-server-1.8.0-updated-zoneinfo.patch) removed TZNAME tags >> from Australia/Perth.ics and Asia/Jerusalem.ics. As a consequence -- >> NULL pointer for TZ name string references, string comparison with NULL >> pointers an so on... >> >> Because, evolution-data-server is important infrastructure component not >> only for Evolution, but for some other GNOME components too, I think, >> this problem must be resolved. Given above, we have three ways for that: >> 1) quick&dirty -- setting up corresponding UTC-relative TZ (not exactly >> equivalent) or starting of evolution with --disable-eplugin option >> 2) orthodox -- downgrading of evolution-data-server package, or setting >> up TZNAME tags in Australia/Perth and Asia/Jerusalem timezones >> 3) hackers way -- source patching by single line of code (the patch is >> attached) >> >> Of course, further testing will be helpfull and, may be, escalating this >> problem to the upstream vendor will be reasonably. >> >> Apropos, Connie or/and Troy, which procedure was used for evolution- >> data-server package building? My rpmbuild on SL50 was finished with some >> error messages: >> >> ================================================== >> + aclocal >> configure.in:706: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by frozen >> file is not supported >> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 >> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 >> ================================================== >> >> Seems like your package built by previous version of automake tool box. >> Package was rebuilded on SL50 only after removing `mkstemp' function >> checking directive in a line 706 of configure.in. >> >> --Oleg >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> --- >> evolution-data-server-1.8.0/calendar/libical/src/libical/icaltimezone.c.orig >> 2007-05-25 01:20:43.000000000 +0400 >> +++ >> evolution-data-server-1.8.0/calendar/libical/src/libical/icaltimezone.c >> 2007-05-25 01:23:01.000000000 +0400 >> @@ -1433,6 +1433,8 @@ >> >> z_offset = get_offset(zone); >> >> + if (zone->tznames == NULL) continue; >> + >> if (z_offset == offset && !strcmp(tzname, zone->tznames)) >> return zone; >> } > > -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________