[karmic] evolution does not start after installing postgreSQL

[stefan]

Ubuntu 9.10

After installing PostgreSQL (latest Version), evolution does not start anymore.
(and i just recognized, that gedit has a similar problem with libmxl2)

Error message (evolution):

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

Error message (gedit):

gedit: /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by gedit)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 26 10:40:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the issue is not an ubuntu bug but your installation taking over libraries and breaking those too

[yurx cherio (cherio)]

Getting similar error when running Printer configuration dialog:

>> system-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py", line 108, in <module>
    from GroupsPane import *
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/GroupsPane.py", line 21, in <module>
    from GroupsPaneModel import *
  File "/usr/share/system-config-printer/GroupsPaneModel.py", line 19, in <module>
    import libxml2
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
ImportError: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/libxml2mod.so: symbol xmlFirstElementChild, version LIBXML2_2.7.3 not defined in file libxml2.so.2 with link time reference

Uninstalling PostgreSQL 8.4 resolved the problem.

[yurx cherio (cherio)]

I forgot to include the following.
Before uninstalling PostgreSQL:
$ locate libxml2.so
/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/lib/libxml2.so.2
/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/pgAdmin3/lib/libxml2.so
/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/pgAdmin3/lib/libxml2.so.2
/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/pgAdmin3/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.32
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.5
/usr/lib32/libxml2.so
/usr/lib32/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib32/libxml2.so.2.7.5

After uninstalling PostgreSQL, when the problem got resolved:
$ locate libxml2.so
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.5
/usr/lib32/libxml2.so
/usr/lib32/libxml2.so.2
/usr/lib32/libxml2.so.2.7.5

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen closed bugs this is an install issue not a bug

[Leonardo Camargo (flueedo)]

Same problem here. Same output as Stefan. But I can't afford not to have postgres on my machine.
I recently found more applications broken by postgresql 8.4 install. VMWare Workstation seems to be one of them.