Re: [Evolution] open

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 21:30 +0200, Gottfried wrote:
> > I'm unsure of one thing: does Evolution freeze in this state and it
> > doesn't repaint,
>
> ...which lead to full function until I closed it  again. Then it was
> not opening anymore.

        Hi,
I'm sorry, I'm still confused. "Then it was not opening anymore" means
"Evolution doesn't start", or anything else? There is a big difference
between: a) no evolution; b) evolution window stuck, not responding;
c) might probably do something in the background, with no visual
effect, but still can read locally stored messages and otherwise
interact with the application.

> Password seems not the problem, as I can open evolution through the 
> 'send to' command in the file directory. I just click on any file 
> anywhere with the right mouseclick, choose 'send-to' and open
> evolution perfect. But that doesn't make sense to me either.

Password for message send is saved separately from the one for message
receive. I would verify that the saved password (in `seahorse`, aka
"Passwords & keys" application) is the correct one. That would be for a
workaround to not shown password prompt. By the way, when you run
evolution from a terminal like this:

   $ evolution &>log.txt

and you reproduce the issue and then close evolution gracefully, will
the new log.txt file contain anything? Beware of private information,
though there might be only a minimum of it, if anything.

The not-shown-credentials-prompt sounds known to me, but I cannot
recall any detail right now. Maybe update evolution and evolution-data-
server to 3.26.3, which you might have already available in the
repository, then restart the machine, thus the updated binaries for
background processes are restarted.

I'd also try one possibly completely unrelated thing, run:
   $ evolution --force-shutdown
which will also restart background processes. There could be some issue
with libsecret which happens from time to time, but it doesn't
propagate into the UI. Restatrt of background processes this way helped
usually. As I said, this might be unrelated and a complete nonsense for
the issue you face.
        Bye,
        Milan