Re: [Evolution] Lost My Calendar

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:31, Lane P. Lester wrote:
> Well, it's interesting to see that I'm not the only one who has
> experienced this. Although I did not relate it, after the loss,
> Calendar will not work at all. I will try the calendar.ics deletion
> and hopefully get it going again.
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 06:13, Rodrigo Moya wrote: 
> > my guess is that wombat was killed or interrupted while writing the
> > file, and this can have left some invalid characters in the file that
> > make it fail when opening it again.
> I have had some system crashes recently in which the computer
> instantaneously powers down. I'm suspecting bad RAM, but I'm not sure.
> I know for sure that I was not doing anything with Evolution at the
> time. 
but if wombat was running, then it might have been interrupted while
saving the file. That might explain the corrupted file.

> > I suppose it will be difficult to reproduce, but if you can, please make
> > sure when it happens, you are running wombat on a terminal window, to
> > see if it spits out some error messages.
> Since I'm using KDE3, I presume that only my running evolution starts
> wombat. So I can start evolution in a terminal window. 
well, that won't show up wombat messages, so make sure you start wombat
in a terminal, then wait some seconds (until you see a 'Wombat up and
running' message (or similar), and then start evolution. All warnings
and messages should display on the terminal.

cheers
> -- 
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>