evolution no longer starts

jimoe666 · February 22, 2010, 11:04pm

opensuse v11.2, linux 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop x86_64
gnome desktop

Last week (Friday, 19-Feb-2010) evolution worked. Today it does not.

The first attempt yielded this:

> evolution &
jmoe:/home/jmoe> *** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
*** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 494: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `((reloc-&gt;r_info) & 0xffffffff) == 8' failed!

After issuing

export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=1

I got this:

> evolution &
jmoe:/home/jmoe> *** nss-shared-helper: Using shared location /home/jmoe/.pki/nssdb
*** nss-shared-helper: Using shared location /home/jmoe/.pki/nssdb
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h: 494: elf_machine_rela_relative: Assertion `((reloc-&gt;r_info) & 0xffffffff) == 8' failed!

There are obviously two problems.

What could it mean? How do I fix it?

jimoe666 · February 24, 2010, 6:34am

The problem is caused by a separate, more serious issue I have with v11.2. (See Bugzilla ticket #571494) The issue is that the linux kernel becomes damaged, or may even crash, when writing to a CIFS volume served by OS/2; it was not a problem in v11.1. (Novell tech support does not consider this a serious problem so it is on hold. :()

I had forgotten and written a file to the server, getting the usual dire warnings. Since linux did not crash, I thought it had survived. Not so. On a lark I rebooted and, Voila!, all is well again.