Re: [Evolution] evolution crashed and destroyed all my mail!

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Sounds like you may have either file system corruption or else hard
drive issues. You might try fsck'ing your drive?

Jeff

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 14:00, Bram Mertens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Little over an hour ago Evolution froze up apparantly for no particular 
> reason, after I used killev to shut it down it restarted without a problem 
> but crashed when I tried to get my new mail. (I uses "bug-buddy" to submit 
> a bug report)
>
> Same thing happened again after I had used killev again.
>
> So I used oaf-slay and got a warning that proces 2021 oafd was still 
> running, after that I couldn't start KWrite any more, so I logged out and 
> logged back in.
>
> I tried to start Evolution but it didn't work, so I tried to backup my 
> evolution dir but this is what happened:
> [M8ram localhost M8ram]$ tar -czf  backup/evolution/20020808.tar.gz 
> evolution/
> Segmentation fault
>
> I then manually backup as much as I could (which is everything but 
> evolution/local/Bram/
>
> The size of the mbox file in that dir is 0!
>
> When I tried again, evolution started bu I can't open any folder and all 
> folders report as number of messages -1/-1!
>
> I have a backup made yesterday so I won't have lost much but I'd still like 
> to recover today's messages, any suggestion?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> I use Evolution 1.0.8 (updated via Red Carpet) on a RH7.3 (i686) kernel 
> 2.4-18 on KDE 3.0.0-10
>
> -- 
> Bram Mertens
> bram-mertens linux be
>
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