Re: [Evolution] Unable to fetch mail after unsafe shutdown

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 23:00 -0400, Jason Ansel wrote:
> My computer shutdown unexpectedly/abruptly because I made a typo when
> modifying the source of a kernel module.
>
> Evolution must have been in the middle of something right before this
> unsafe shutdown, because now it seems to be stuck in somewhat broken
> state.
>
> Whenever i try to fetch mail from a remote server i get the error
> message:
>
> [QUOTE]
> Error while 'Fetching Mail':
> Unable to connect to POP server mail.someserver.com
> Error sending password: Operation now in progress.
> [/QUOTE]
This error shouldn't have anything to do with the crash as such.  Although I could be wrong.  Can't see how though.

You could try removing ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution and/or run 'forget passwords', so that it tries to connect cleanly.

If that doesn't help, perhaps trying to use strace to find out what system call is failing and where.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer