Re: [Evolution] Catastrophic crash of evolution, then won't start

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe sunspace co za>]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 08:49 +1100, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've had this happen a few times: evolution just hangs in the middle
> of trying to do something (generally checking for new mail), and then
> no matter what I do, just refuses to start again.  All my mail is on
> distant servers: some using imap; others MS Exchange.  I've done
> several "evolution --force-shutdown", but still it won't start.  When
> I try "evolution --offline" I get messages like: 
>
> (evolution:13141): camel-WARNING **: Invalid root:
> '/home/amca/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts.ibex.index'
>
> (plus other messages) which I don't understand, as that file certainly
> exists.
>
> An "strace evolution -c mail" produces masses of output; the end of
> which is: 
>
> read(44, "\207\177m\376\235\234(\224\226\234\322o\340\364\36/", 16) =
> 16
> write(43, "\207\177m\376\235\234(\224\226\234\322o\340\364\36/", 16) =
> 16
> write(43, "NDNE", 4)                    = 4 
> read(43,  
>
> at which it just hangs.
>
> Now, I know from previous experience that this will be fixed with a
> reboot.  But I'd like to know what it is in my running system which is
> stopping evolution.  Any ideas? 
>
> BTW: evolution "Gnome evolution-2.2 2.2.1", on linux Suse 9.3.


I've had some luck deleting (moving) my exchange dir in the .evolution
working directory.  This rebuilds the offline folder structure at
startup.
Worth a try.




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