Re: [Evolution] Evolution issue or Flatpak issue

[Japhering Anonymous <japhering gmail com>]

On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 07:43 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 16:46 -0500, Anonymous Japhering via evolution-
> list wrote:
> > Evolution crashed ( it happens every so often).  So I killed the
> > flatpak remnants and rebuilt the the environment, as I do everytime
> > it crashes.  
>
>         Hi,
> I hope you do not mean to rebuild the project, aka running the 
> flatpak-builder, because that won't help. More helpful would be to
> get
> a backtrace of the crash, to see where it crashed and why, but it's
> tricky. You might find some information about how to do that on the
> Flatpak site. I'd like to know why it crashes, thus it can be
> eventually fixed.

Failures are usually certificate validation failures.. the next time I have one
happen, I'll
provide it.

> > (evolution-source-registry:14): e-backend-WARNING **: 16:31:13.557:
> > Failed to move
> > '/home/mhm/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/cache/evolution/mail/fd637c
> > d8
> > a03e065bf4072184cc79851443947c26': Error moving file
> > /home/mhm/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/cache/evolution/mail/fd637cd
> > 8a
> > 03e065bf4072184cc79851443947c26: File exists

This is 1 of the 4 error messages in its entirety. All 4 messages are 
identical minus the last element of the path. 
> If I rad this correctly, then the paths exactly match. I'd hope the
> error message will show: "moving file A to B failed: error message",
> where 'A' and 'B' are two different paths.


I made the mistake of asssuming that the 
fd637cd8a03e065bf4072184cc79851443947c26 part was a file. In reality,
all 4 instances are the last element in the path are empty directories.

> You are right that these come from the Evolution (or better from the
> evolution-data-server), not from the Flatpak. I guess, and only
> guess,
> there also exists:
>
> /home/mhm/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/cache/evolution/mail/trash/fd6
> 37cd8a03e065bf4072184cc79851443947c26
>
> It can be that the source registry tries to restore the account data
> from the trash, but the account data directory already exists. That
> probably happened due to the crashes you face. I would compare the
> content of the two folders and delete one of them (when Evolution and
> all of its processes are off). The error should be gone after it. Or
> simply remove all the directories in the trash path, that will help
> too.

Ok. I'll investigate that possibility.

Thanks