Bug#291757: evolution: Upgrade from 1.4.6 to 2.0.3 fails and Evolution is *UNUSABLE*
Tore Anderson wrote: * Onno Benschop The bug basically states that during migration from 1.4.x to 2.x, the conversion of the mailbox data fails. Does this affect upgrades from Evolution 1.0.5 as well? If not, it simply /cannot/ be considered release critical, as 1.0.5 is the version currently found in Woody. The short answer, "Yes, I strongly *suspect* it does." The long answer: I don't have Evolution 1.0.5 installed, so I have not been able to test this, and I'm not confident that installing an older version of Evolution would actually migrate my mail data back, but the original bug report showed this URL: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=69566 Which has been moved to here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269566 This bug is now marked Major and is slated for 2.2, and it has many reports associated with it. On 22 February, 2005, JP Rosevear stated: (Comment #27 in the bug report) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269566#c27 So we've prevented the crash now. It seems to happen when e-d-s can't load for some reason. We'll see what happens with new reports. This makes me suspect that the bug has been resolved in their CVS, but I suspect that Debian isn't using that fixed version at this stage. *However*, I note that v2.2.1 is now in Unstable, which if I'm reading correctly from the Gnome Bugzilla does not have this problem. So, I would propose that this bug stay open until v2.2.1 is in Testing, then I'll do another migration using the backed up mail data from 1.4.6 and test again. If you've gotten to here wondering if I'm ever actually going to answer your question about v1.0.5, here it is: While I understand and completely agree with your sentiment about upgrading from Woody, Evolution 1.0.5, to 2.0.3, I strongly suspect that v1.0.5 is affected, though I do not have any actual proof of that. Kind regards, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41" - E152°35'34" (Graham's Creek, QLD) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |>>?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#291757: How to Downgrade to 1.4.6-5
After my experience, I thought I'd also share how I got my email back to a usable state, seeing that this bug makes it impossible to use 2.x with your current email. Suggestions exist on the web to start-up without an ~/evolution folder by renaming it and importing the data, but I'm not keen to manually import 2.1Gb of email. Downgrading was surprisingly simple: 1. Add some source lines to /etc/apt/sources.list 2. Let apt do the work This breaks down to: Add these two lines to sources.list: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2004/08/17/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2004/08/17/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free (That date is the last date that 1.4.6-5 was available in the debian package system.) Then: apt-get update && apt-get install evolution=1.4.6-5 All it installed was that package and it all worked for me from there. I'll add reports as I go if any other things come out to bite me :-| -- Onno Benschop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#291757: evolution: Upgrade from 1.4.6 to 2.0.3 fails and Evolution is *UNUSABLE*
Package: evolution Version: 2.0.3-1.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I am logging this bug report into BTS, because if I was aware of this bug in Ximain's bugzilla, I would not have upgraded this package. http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=69566 The bug basically states that during migration from 1.4.x to 2.x, the conversion of the mailbox data fails. Users installing this version of Evolution should know that: * Existing ~/evolution data is not lost * The new format of the data is stored in ~/.evolution * Migrations do not always fail, but there are presently 21 duplicate reports going back to 2004-11-16 with this problem Takuo KITAME, please note that I understand that this is not a bug that you as a maintainer have likely any influence on, but my report is intended specifically to communicate to other evolution users that there are serious issues with installing this version of evolution. I'd appreciate it if you left it open until the bug is resolved upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages evolution depends on: ii evolution-data-server1.0.3-2 evolution database backend server ii gconf2 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.8.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gtkhtml3.2 3.2.4-1 HTML rendering/editing library - b ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile00.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc62.3.2.ds1-20GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcompfaceg11989.11.11-24 Compress/decompress images for mai ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-17 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libebook81.0.3-2 Client library for evolution addre ii libecal6 1.0.3-2 Client library for evolution calen ii libedataserver3 1.0.3-2 Utily library for evolution data s ii libegroupwise6 1.0.3-2 Client library for accessing group ii libesd0 0.2.35-2Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgail-common 1.8.2-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgail171.8.2-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgal2.2-1 2.2.4-1 G App Libs (run time library) ii libgal2.2-common 2.2.4-1 G App Libs (common files) ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.1-1 Library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring00.4.0-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.12-1.1 Support libraries for gnome-pilot ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-6 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-02.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.8.2-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.8.1-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-8 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error01.0-1 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.14-2The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkhtml3.2-11 3.2.4-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg626b-9The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libldap2 2.1.30-3OpenLDAP libraries ii libnspr4 2:1.7.5-1 Netscape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3 2:1.7.5-1 Network Security Service Libraries ii liborbit21:2.10.2-1.1libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-01.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpisock8 0.11.8-10 Library for communicating
