On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Gilboa Davara <gilb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 21:44 +0100, N James Bridge wrote: >> I have also had a major problem with evolution in Fedora 15. I had made >> a backup archive using evolution 2.32.2 in F14. F15 installs evolution >> 3.0 - and it worked fine until I tried to restore from the archive. That >> seemed to work (including converting the database to a maildir format) >> but then the program just hung indefinitely when trying to fetch mail. >> Curiously, even if I turned off the send/receive function, there was one >> folder which would not open, though all the others worked normally. (The >> folder contained all the mail from this list!) >> >> I have temporarily reverted to F14, where evolution 2.32 restored from >> the archive without a hitch, and am now copying and pasting all the >> emails I want saved into text files. Tedious, to say the least. Then I >> can go back to F15 and start evolution with a clean sheet. > > I seem to have managed to solve the problem (knock wood) under F15 - at > least for now: > I backed-up all my important evolution files and user configurations > (~/.local/share/evolution, .bash*, .ssh, *.*gdb*, etc) and cleared all > the ~/.XXX files and directories - including the ~/.config/ and > ~/.local. > Once I was done, I everything from scratch, including evolution (this > time under KDE 4.6). > > As far as I can see, evolution is now working. (This was sent from > evolution under F15/KDE). > Hopefully I won't have to follow your footsteps and import/export my 700 > +MB evolution DB back to Fedora 14. > > - Gilboa
P.S. It still crashing from time to time, I'm still trying to figure out what triggers the crash... - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
