On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 08:49 +1100, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > Hi, > > I've had this happen a few times: evolution just hangs in the middle > of trying to do something (generally checking for new mail), and then > no matter what I do, just refuses to start again. All my mail is on > distant servers: some using imap; others MS Exchange. I've done > several "evolution --force-shutdown", but still it won't start. When > I try "evolution --offline" I get messages like: > > (evolution:13141): camel-WARNING **: Invalid root: > '/home/amca/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts.ibex.index' > > (plus other messages) which I don't understand, as that file certainly > exists. > > An "strace evolution -c mail" produces masses of output; the end of > which is: > > read(44, "\207\177m\376\235\234(\224\226\234\322o\340\364\36/", 16) = > 16 > write(43, "\207\177m\376\235\234(\224\226\234\322o\340\364\36/", 16) = > 16 > write(43, "NDNE", 4) = 4 > read(43, > > at which it just hangs. > > Now, I know from previous experience that this will be fixed with a > reboot. But I'd like to know what it is in my running system which is > stopping evolution. Any ideas? > > BTW: evolution "Gnome evolution-2.2 2.2.1", on linux Suse 9.3. >
I've had some luck deleting (moving) my exchange dir in the .evolution working directory. This rebuilds the offline folder structure at startup. Worth a try. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
