Re: [Evolution] I think I broke it

[Tim Wescott <tim wescottdesign com>]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:07 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2011, 10:30 -0700 schrieb Tim Wescott:
> > I'm using the version of Evolution that comes with Ubuntu 11.04: 2.32.2.
> > It is running slowly, and it is crashing on me unexpectedly.  The
> > crashes sometimes happen at startup, most often when I send mail (in
> > which case the mail seems to get through, but nothing gets put into my
> > "sent" box).
> >
> > I think I may have done this myself: for a while I had been running
> > Evolution from my laptop in the house, thinking that since it ran at all
> > it would run trouble free (and is it that hard to check for another
> > running version?)  Apparently what I did instead was to corrupt some
> > files.
> >
> > I know that my address book is corrupted -- fortunately I have an
> > exported copy that's quite recent.
> >
> > When I start it up from a command line I get a flood of messages akin to
> > the following
> >
> > (evolution:8199): camel-WARNING **: Could not find key entry for word
> > 1000000000000000001
> >
> > with various different (large) numbers at the end of the line.  Then it
> > either crashes with a segmentation fault, or it says 
> >
> > (evolution:8361): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Object class EMFolderTree
> > doesn't implement property 'paste-target-list' from interface
> > 'ESelectable'
> >
> > (evolution:8361): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Object class EMFolderTree
> > doesn't implement property 'copy-target-list' from interface
> > 'ESelectable'
> >
> > and starts up.
> >
> > Anyone know what's going on, and what I might try to fix this?  I'm
> > about ready to go back to Thunderbird.
>
> Well, you could start with a clean setup, i.e. make a backup of you
> evolution data, by running the Backup/Restore from the File-menu and
> then rename ~/.evolution, ~/.local/share/evolution,
> ~/.local/config/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution. Also run gconf-editor and
> delete the key for /apps/evolution.
> Then restart evolution and see if it comes up cleanly or if those
> messages appear again. Maybe, something is wrong with your installation
> and you need to reinstall evolution.
> Then use the Backup/Restore from the menu again to reimport your
> backed-up data.
> If the import does not run cleanly, try importing the missing stuff
> one-by-one using the import functionality, also from the file menu.
> By one-by-one, I mean calendar ics-files, address-book files, mbox files
> and so-on. 
> Hope that helps!!
Thanks Thomas -- that was the how-to I was looking for.

I rather suspect that the initial install was just fine, but that I
corrupted something when I was running two versions at once.

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Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.