[Evolution] Bug#531437: workaround: evolution: errors about offline journal

Graeme Tank graemet at comcast.net
Thu Aug 13 06:09:32 UTC 2009


Package: evolution
Version: 2.26.3-2
Severity: normal


Julien wrote (in bug report #531437):

>Some time ago evo started complaining about my (imaps) inbox, with
>errors such as:

>Could not open 'open':
>No such folder folder
>Changes made to this folder will not be resynchronized.

>or

>Error while Refreshing folder.

>Cannot write offline journal for folder 'INBOX': Success

>(sometimes with 'No such file or directory' instead of 'Success')

>or when trying to move a message to another folder:

>Error while Moving messages into folder debian.

>Cannot write offline journal for folder 'INBOX': Success

>Not sure how to debug...  Feel free to ask if you need more info.

>Cheers,
>Julien

I had the same symptoms Julien described using a similar IMAP inbox. (I was
using evolution 2.26.3-2).

Also, many evolution errors along the bottom bar just gave a ! in a yield sign
... no error message; to clear the errors, I had to click on the bottom bar to
bring up the error (the blank ! yield error), hit enter to dismiss the error,
and then repeat several times.

The workaround for me was to quit evolution (which can take some time with this bug),
rename (safe) or remove (risky) the ~/.evolution folder, then restart evolution and allow it
to rebuild the IMAP and other evolution information in a fresh ~/.evolution folder.

dpkg-reconfigure evolution did not work, nor did dpkg-reconfigure evolution-*,
where the * was propagated in the command line.

I do not know what caused the \b(cor|dis|e)ruption of my ~/.evolution folder.

Graeme Tank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus         1.2.16-2                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  debconf [deb 1.5.27                      Debian configuration management sy
ii  evolution-co 2.26.3-2                    architecture independent files for
ii  evolution-da 2.26.3-1+b1                 evolution database backend server
ii  gconf2       2.26.2-3                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-t 2.26.0-1                    GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2                    Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0  1.26.0-1                    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbluetooth 4.42-2                      Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libbonobo2-0 2.24.1-1                    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2 2.24.1-1                    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6        2.9-23                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2    1.8.6-2+b1                  The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcamel1.2- 2.26.3-1+b1                 The Evolution MIME message handlin
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.16-2                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.82-1                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libebackend1 2.26.3-1+b1                 Utility library for evolution data
ii  libebook1.2- 2.26.3-1+b1                 Client library for evolution addre
ii  libecal1.2-7 2.26.3-1+b1                 Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserv 2.26.3-1+b1                 Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserv 2.26.3-1+b1                 GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libegroupwis 2.26.3-1+b1                 Client library for accessing group
ii  libenchant1c 1.4.2-3.3                   a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libexchange- 2.26.3-1+b1                 Client library for accessing Excha
ii  libfontconfi 2.6.0-4                     generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6 2.3.9-4.1                   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4  2.26.2-3                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgdata-goo 2.26.3-1+b1                 Client library for accessing Googl
ii  libgdata1.2- 2.26.3-1+b1                 Client library for accessing Googl
ii  libglade2-0  1:2.6.4-1                   library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-pil 2.0.15-2.4                  Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii  libgnome2-0  2.26.0-1                    The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanv 2.26.0-1                    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1                    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2 1:2.24.1-3                  GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.16.1-2                    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkhtml-e 3.26.3-1                    HTML rendering/editing library - e
ii  libgtkhtml3. 3.26.3-1                    HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libgweather1 2.26.1-1                    GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libical0     0.43-3                      iCalendar library implementation i
ii  libice6      2:1.0.5-1                   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libldap-2.4- 2.4.17-1                    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libnotify1 [ 0.4.5-1                     sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d  4.8-1                       NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d   3.12.3-1                    Network Security Service libraries
ii  liborbit2    1:2.14.17-0.1               libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0- 1.24.0-3+b1                 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpisock9   0.12.4-3                    library for communicating with a P
ii  libpisync1   0.12.4-3                    synchronization library for PalmOS
ii  libpopt0     1.14-4                      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6       2:1.1.0-2                   X11 Session Management library
ii  libsoup2.4-1 2.27.4-1                    an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsqlite3-0 3.6.16-1                    SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13                 userspace USB programming library
ii  libx11-6     2:1.2.2-1                   X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2      2.7.3.dfsg-2+b1             GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15           compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  bogofilter                    1.2.0-1    a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy
ii  evolution-plugins             2.26.3-2   standard plugins for Evolution
ii  evolution-webcal              2.26.0-1   webcal: URL handler for GNOME and 
ii  gnome-desktop-data            2.26.1-1   Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-pilot-conduits          2.0.15-1.2 conduits for gnome-pilot
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-2   Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  bug-buddy                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  evolution-dbg                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  evolution-exchange            <none>     (no description available)
pn  evolution-plugins-experimenta <none>     (no description available)
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-4    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  network-manager               0.7.1-1    network management framework daemo





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