Re: [Evolution] A mail killing evolution permanently

[Damian Ivereigh <damian cisco com>]

Check that you haven't still got some evolution processes running. There
may be a better way, do 'ps ax | grep evolution' and kill everything
(including all the evolution-* stuff)!

Damian

On 05 Jun 2001 10:27:55 +0200, Carsten Zerbst wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I switched from netscape to evolution and liked it very much.
>
> But today I got an email which broke evolution permanent. I clicked on 
> it to delete it, but evolution stopped afterwards. I had to kill it and 
> restart, but it stoppes starting after
>
>
> Evolution component activated successfully -- 
> OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent
>
> exactly (strace)
>
> ===
> writev(9, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\0\361\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, 
> {"L\357\377\277\1", 5}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, 
> {"\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0.>\324\234\336\261\223\21\3\0\0\0\256"..., 28}, 
> {"\21\0\0\0activate_from_id\0", 21}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, 
> {"+\0\0\0", 4}, {"OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_Shel"..., 43}, {"\0", 1}, 
> {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, {"\10\0\0\0", 4}, {"\t\0\0\0", 4}, {"username\0", 9}, 
> {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\3\0\0\0", 4}, {"cz\0", 3}, {"\0", 1}, {"\t\0\0\0", 4}, 
> {"hostname\0", 9}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\33\0\0\0", 4}, 
> {"skflinux.skf.tu-harburg.de\0", 27}, {"\0", 1}, {"\7\0\0\0", 4}, 
> {"domain\0", 7}, {"\0", 1}, {"\5\0\0\0", 4}, {"user\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0", 
> 3}, {"\10\0\0\0", 4}, {"display\0", 8}, {"\5\0\0\0", 4}, {":0.0\0", 5}], 
> 36) = 253
> select(11, [5 8 9 10], NULL, [5 8 9 10], NULL
> ----
>
> I then renamed the evolution folder and started evolution again, with 
> the same result. I copied the files to another account and started 
> evolution there. Everything went fine until I selected that mail again 
> to delete it. The same result, I cann't start evolution.
>
> What could prevent evolution permanent from startting ?
>
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