[TriLUG] Red Hat 7.3 + Ximian = bad mojo

[Chris Hedemark]

FWIW, I've about had my fill of the minor problems (and some major ones
now) that have built up since putting Ximian Gnome on top of my Red Hat
7.3 system.

I use 7.3 at client sites, without Red Carpet, and it works fine.  But
the final straw tonight was when Evolution 1.0.5 lost all of my mail
settings (!!!!).  I upgraded to 1.0.7 and they didn't magically return. 
Ugh.  My messages so far seem to be there but it was a scary period for
awhile there.

Also memory is leaking badly.  I've got half a gig of RAM, and when the
system is idle (with only 8 days of uptime) I'm 23MB into swap.  This is
without evo even running.

To top it all off, my RPM database seems to be fubar.  I can no longer
use Red Carpet to update my system.  I've been careful to ONLY use Red
Carpet and ONLY take recommended upgrades.  Nevertheless, I can no
longer use Red Carpet as the RPM database seems whacked.