[Evolution] Bug#598796: Bug#598796: Bug#598796: evolution: hangs on startup while "migrating folders"

Adam Borowski kilobyte at angband.pl
Sat Oct 2 10:58:08 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:00:59PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On sam., 2010-10-02 at 11:19 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > Is something output on the console? Could you give us the detail of your
> > > accounts and folder? Do you have folders.db files in your .evolution
> > > folders (under .evolution/mail/*/*/folders.db)?
> > 
> > Yes, but when I moved the entire directory away, it was recreated from
> > scratch, and is BYTE TO BYTE IDENTICAL (save for categories.xml) to the old
> > one.  Also, there appears to be no useful data inside.
> 
> I'm lost. The folder contains the local mail storage, so there should be
> some of your mails there (unless you don't store it at all locally ?)

It would be at most Evolution's local cache if it uses any, as all mails are
stored (at least their master copies) on an IMAP server.

Still, that non-existant local mail stops Evolution from starting at all.

> > I seriously doubt it's of any use, but I've put it at
> > http://angband.pl/tmp/evol-dir.tar.bz2
> 
> I hope there's nothing private there...

All the files have nothing interesting in them, just a header, bunch of
zeroes and a SQL statement.  The only piece of information you could learn
about me is that the username is "kilobyte" and the mail server
"mail.angband.pl".

> In the end, if you start with a *fresh* folder, does it work or not?

It does not, and that's the main problem here -- at least for me.
I guess I need to delete the config Evolution stores elsewhere -- but that
wouldn't fix the bug, merely work around a symptom.

> > Waiting a long time doesn't appear to help.  When straced, it appears to
> > deadlock on some synchronization:
> 
> I meant to click “cancel” at every warning window. There'll be a lot of
> them, but in the end they'll disappear. You could try to start in
> offline mode too (evolution --offline)

Neither of the buttons accept any input.


Miaow!
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