Re: [Evolution] "Generating message list" won't go away -- possible database corruption

[john lauterbachandassociates net]

Thank you very much.  Programs you wanted were on Synaptic, but for 
3.18, not 3.20.  Will work on this at next stop on business trip.

John


On 2016-10-07 02:58, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 16:43 -0400, Dr. John H. Lauterbach wrote:
> > First, debug file is attached.
>
>         Hi,
> you forgot to install debuginfo packages I asked for, thus this is
> rather semi-blind guess, but from what I see then there are like 3
> accounts waiting for their credentials (can be keyring related), and
> the main thread is completely busy with drawing the spinners in the
> folder tree (what a pita that gtk+ spinners are that resource
> expensive), you might see higher CPU usage too, which is caused by
> these spinners, thus gtk+ issue. I do not see any thread which would
> show the ongoing 'Generating message list' operation, but it can be
> that it's waiting for the account to be connected. Once upon a time,
> the spinners were that resource expensive that they blocked other
> operations which required idle processing starve. The evolution(-data-
> server) code received some changes to workaround this issue. Maybe you
> found another way to reproduce it. Nonetheless, it doesn't explain why
> it worked with your changes below.
>
> > Second, I renamed the mail subfolder to mail.old.  I restarted
> > evolution, and everything started working correctly.
>
> Good.
>
> > Third, how do I recover the e-mail in all the subfolders under InBox?
> >  These contain much essential information.
> If you renamed the ~/.config/evolution/mail, then it's okay, because
> that folder contains only some configuration files. The mails from On
> This Computer/ are stored in ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/
> folder. More can be found here:
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/data-storage.html.en
>
> By the way, do things break again if you rename the mail.old/ back to
> mail/?
>
>         Bye,
>         Milan
>
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