On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:07 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2011, 10:30 -0700 schrieb Tim Wescott: > > I'm using the version of Evolution that comes with Ubuntu 11.04: 2.32.2. > > It is running slowly, and it is crashing on me unexpectedly. The > > crashes sometimes happen at startup, most often when I send mail (in > > which case the mail seems to get through, but nothing gets put into my > > "sent" box). > > > > I think I may have done this myself: for a while I had been running > > Evolution from my laptop in the house, thinking that since it ran at all > > it would run trouble free (and is it that hard to check for another > > running version?) Apparently what I did instead was to corrupt some > > files. > > > > I know that my address book is corrupted -- fortunately I have an > > exported copy that's quite recent. > > > > When I start it up from a command line I get a flood of messages akin to > > the following > > > > (evolution:8199): camel-WARNING **: Could not find key entry for word > > 1000000000000000001 > > > > with various different (large) numbers at the end of the line. Then it > > either crashes with a segmentation fault, or it says > > > > (evolution:8361): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Object class EMFolderTree > > doesn't implement property 'paste-target-list' from interface > > 'ESelectable' > > > > (evolution:8361): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Object class EMFolderTree > > doesn't implement property 'copy-target-list' from interface > > 'ESelectable' > > > > and starts up. > > > > Anyone know what's going on, and what I might try to fix this? I'm > > about ready to go back to Thunderbird. > > > > Well, you could start with a clean setup, i.e. make a backup of you > evolution data, by running the Backup/Restore from the File-menu and > then rename ~/.evolution, ~/.local/share/evolution, > ~/.local/config/evolution, ~/.cache/evolution. Also run gconf-editor and > delete the key for /apps/evolution. > Then restart evolution and see if it comes up cleanly or if those > messages appear again. Maybe, something is wrong with your installation > and you need to reinstall evolution. > Then use the Backup/Restore from the menu again to reimport your > backed-up data. > If the import does not run cleanly, try importing the missing stuff > one-by-one using the import functionality, also from the file menu. > By one-by-one, I mean calendar ics-files, address-book files, mbox files > and so-on. > Hope that helps!! > Thanks Thomas -- that was the how-to I was looking for.
I rather suspect that the initial install was just fine, but that I corrupted something when I was running two versions at once. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
