Re: [Evolution] evolution froze

["LLLActive GMX Net" <LLLActive GMX Net>]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:29 -0700, Emmanuele Salvati wrote:
> hi all,
>
> since yesterday I am having big trouble with evolution:
> I start it, it hangs right away and I see a message saying:
>
> unable to retrieve message: interrupted system call
> and it starts using all the cpu and the fan starts running. 
> I use ubuntu 7.04 on a macbook.
> yesterday I was running evolution and it suddendly hung.
> I killed it and since then I am no longer able to use it.
> I am able to do nothing but kill it with top.
> I also tried to apt-get remove it and reinstall it, but nothing. 
> I removed ${HOME}.evolution/cache but nothing.
> any suggestions ?
>
> thank you,
> -- 
>             emmanuele 

Hi emmanuelle,

I found the quickest way to get back online is to just
rename .evolution. If you had a lot of Filters to other sub-directories
and search filters, they will be gone. If you kept all the mails on the
server, you will get them again. I found it helpful to keep mails on the
server, because space does not matter anymore and I can get on the
server with other systems at the office and at home, and also remotely
via webmail too. If my mail client packs up, I can recover my mails
easily again after a new setup of the client. 

I've been having a lot of problems also since yesterday. Adding some
search folders often caused an error saying something to the effect that
"the folder did not exist" (not sure anymore). Then in the afternoon I
restarted the system after increasing volume sizes of some directories
to larger drives, also to /home/<user>. Once the mapping did not work
because the mapping order was wrong (/home/<user>/Data
before /home/<user> where the mount point is located, i.e. the Data
could not map because there was no /home/<user>/Data mount point yet).
Evolution usually starts with logon. This time it did not, because there
was no /home/<user>/Data/.evolution directory. After the mappings were
done correctly, Evolution just did not start anymore. I checked owner
and access rights; no go. I renamed the .evolution directory
to .evolution_<date> and restarted Evolution. It started with all
accounts and sub folders as before. Naturally all mails from the server
were loaded again. All the search folders were gone.

An hour ago, Evolution crashed with a BugBuddy automatically created
(the first one that really worked flawlessly). It created
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437437


To balance it out, I had two users who messed up their outlook.pst
files. Just as bad ...

:-)
Al