Re: [Evolution] Maildir account broken by update?

[fabien <fabien amiot wanadoo fr>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 12:10 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 20:22 +0200, fabien wrote:
> > Running evolution from terminal yields :
> > (evolution:3973): libebackend-WARNING **: module_load:
> > /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/modules/evolution-module-rss.so: undefined
> > symbol: em_folder_tree_set_selected
> > Failed to load module: /usr/lib/evolution/3.12/modules/evolution-
> > module-rss.so
>
>       Hi,
> I do not know whether this is still relevant for you, 


It is, and I thank you for keeping track of this topic.



thus just in
> case, the above warning usually means you've installed incompatible
> version of evolution-rss with evolution itself. 

Well... The packages versions are those of an up-to-date Debian/Jessie :
apt list evolution-rss
Listing... Done
evolution-rss/oldstable,now 0.3.95~20140414-2+b1 i386 [installed]
fabien@debian:~$ apt list evolution
Listing... Done
evolution/oldstable,now 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1 i386 [installed]


The evolution-rss needs
> to be rebuilt against updated evolution.
>
> > (evolution:3973): camel-local-provider-CRITICAL **: scan_fi:
> > assertion 'path != NULL' failed
> >
> > (evolution:3973): camel-local-provider-CRITICAL **: scan_dirs:
> > assertion 'path != NULL' failed
>
> I believe the two above are the problem. Evolution tries to refresh the
> folder, but the account doesn't have properly set the path to the root
> directory of that account. As I said earlier, there had been similar
> issue in the past, which is already fixed, but your ancient version
> might have it still broken.
>
> There's a chance to fix this manually, by editing corresponding .source
> file in ~/.config/evolution/sources/, it's the one which mentions
>
>    BackendName=maildir
>
> in which you can see also something like this, taken from the
> local.source file:
>
>    [Maildir Backend]
>    Path=/home/user/.local/share/evolution/mail/local
>
> Your account might have the Path key empty. 

Unfortunately, checking these .source files yields that all the Path keys are correct...
So I guess the only option is to rebuild evolution-rss. Sticking to these instructions I guess :
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Building ?

Should I choose a particular branch?

Bye,
Fabien


Make sure evolution-source-
> registry process is not running, then edit the corresponding .source
> file, change the Path key to the appropriate path, then restart the
> machine (thus the background processes are run in the correct order, an
> `evolution --force-shutdown` might do the trick too, even there had
> been some changes around what is stopped and what not in the past too).
>
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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