Hi Roger, I have entered a bug report in the upstream project. Please see this link for further info ...
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559153 Please let me know if you find a work-around! Regards, Peter On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Roger Lancefield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have the same issue that Peter has described above. I copied my 46 MB > Evolution backup (made on Hardy with all the latest updates applied) to > a machine running a clean install of Intrepid and experienced similar > events to those Peter has described. > > When attempting to start Evolution for the first time under Intrepid I > used the application's initialization wizard to locate my backup and > restore it. The result was a brief display of the following dialog: > > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/3003590641_551257e899_o.png > > followed by the silent fail Peter describes above. All subsequent > attempts to start Evolution have failed in the same way. The dialog box > visible in the image above flashes (very) briefly, and Evolution dies > silently. This issue has persisted across system restarts and I'm > currently unable to start the Evolution client. > > I have the latest Intrepid updates installed as of the time (BST) and > date visible in the system tray in the image. > > Regards to all > > (PS. Having no access to my mail, calendar or contacts under Intrepid > means that the "Importance" status of this issue is definitely high, if > not critical, for me.) > > -- > Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293207 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "evolution" source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: evolution > > I have about 1.5 gigabytes in mail folders. Everything worked fine under > Ubuntu 8.04. I backed up my mail through Evolution's backup function from > the main menu of Evolution while still under 8.04. I then installed Ubuntu > 8.10, brought up the new Evolution and attempted to restore from backup when > prompted to do so under the new Evolution. The app would unpack the backup > file and then proceed to attempt to convert the mailbox files from version > 22 to 24 (sqlite). The conversion dialog would show a progress bar which > constantly stayed at 0% although the name of the mailbox file being > processed did change from time to time so there appeared to be some activity > (i.e. it did not "freeze"). However it took an extraordinary amount of time. > I let it run for 15 or more hours. Finally I checked it and the dialog box > was gone. I attempted to bring up evolution again and this time the > conversion dialog box was displayed immediately and it appeared to try to go > through the conversion process yet again. I let if complete again (another > 12-15 hours) and attempted to bring up evolution a third time. Again, the > conversion dialog came up and the process began to repeat a third time. I > killed evolution at that point and am filing this bug report. > > Again, note that there was no indication of error and that progress bar > constantly remained at 0% throughout. > > I tried to run gconf and set the version number of the app to 2.24.0 as I > read this was a work around that some folks had luck with but that did not > help. > > I am now without the use of my primary mail application and have had to > resort to using the web interface to my mail account at my ISP. Any > assistance would be appreciated! > > Best regards, > > Peter Pavlovich > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293207 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs