Re: Postgresql8.4 install breaks Evolution on Ubuntu 9.10

A quick-fix solution is deleting the file
'/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2'.

On 11/28/2009 04:23 PM, Leonardo Camargo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm wondering if someone here know how to go about fixing this problem
> that apparently affects everyone who manually install Postgresql8.4 on
> Ubuntu Karmic(9.10).
>
> Postgres installation seems to mess with something that renders other
> applications unable to function. For instance my problem is with
> Evolution Mail. This is the output I started getting after installing
> postgres:
>
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by evolution)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by
> /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libemiscwidgets.so.0)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libgdata-1.2.so.1)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libgdata-1.2.so.1)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libetable.so.0)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libeutil.so.0)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libeutil.so.0)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.9)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.11)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0)
> evolution: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version
> information available (required by /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0)
> evolution: relocation error: /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libeutil.so.0:
> symbol xmlFirstElementChild, version LIBXML2_2.7.3 not defined in file
> libxml2.so.2 with link time reference
>
> I can't be sure(no logs) but VMWare Workstation seems to have been
> affected here too, can't get it to work anymore.
>
> Other people having the same problem:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307864
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/461105
>
>
> Best regards,
> Leonardo C.
>
>
>
>

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Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com>, the Enterprise Postgres
<http://www.enterprisedb.com> company.