[Evolution] Bug#599630: Bug#599630: got errors while upgrading evolution from lenny to squeeze

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Sat Oct 9 19:27:19 UTC 2010


On dim., 2010-10-10 at 00:17 +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
> It upgrades other packages and when it reaches evolution again, the
> following
> "Running instances of Evolution detected
> You are currently upgrading Evolution to a version with an
> incompatible index format. However, it has been detected that
> Evolution is currently running. Upgrading it before shutting it down
> could lead to crashes or to serious data loss in some cases. You need
> to shut down all running instances of Evolution using the "evolution
> --force-shutdown" command before the upgrade can proceed."
> 
> So this time I give 
> $ killall evolution-exchange-storage # I typed evo and then pressed
> tab
> 
> Then again proceed with upgrade, and it continues.
> 
> Do I need to attach term.log? I have already copied the relevant text
> above.
> 
> I don't know if I lost any data because I do not use evolution much. 

Well, at this point there's not much we can do if evolution
--force-shutdown won't stop the exchange-storage. It might be worth
trying to upgrade outside of any desktop environment, too.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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