[Evolution] Bug#598796: Bug#598796: Bug#598796: evolution: hangs on startup while "migrating folders"

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2010-10-02 at 11:19 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:49:06AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > On sam., 2010-10-02 at 01:10 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > On startup, Evolution spawns two windows:
> > > 
> > > * one that says:
> > > .-====[ Migrating... ]
> > > | The summary format of the Evolution mailbox folders has been moved to
> > > | SQLite since Evolution 2.24
> > > |
> > > | Please be patient while Evolution migrates your folders...
> > > |
> > > | Migrating Folders
> > > |
> > > | The summary format of the Evolution mailbox folders has been moved to
> > > | SQLite since Evolution 2.24
> > > |
> > > | Please be patient while Evolution migrates your folders...
> > > |
> > > | Migrating 'On This Computer/Drafts':
> > > | ................50%.................
> > > `----
> > > (note that the text is repeated), the progress bar stuck at 50%,
> > 
> > 
> > Is something output on the console? Could you give us the detail of your
> > accounts and folder? Do you have folders.db files in your .evolution
> > folders (under .evolution/mail/*/*/folders.db)?
> 
> Yes, but when I moved the entire directory away, it was recreated from
> scratch, and is BYTE TO BYTE IDENTICAL (save for categories.xml) to the old
> one.  Also, there appears to be no useful data inside.

I'm lost. The folder contains the local mail storage, so there should be
some of your mails there (unless you don't store it at all locally ?)
> 
> I seriously doubt it's of any use, but I've put it at
> http://angband.pl/tmp/evol-dir.tar.bz2

I hope there's nothing private there...

In the end, if you start with a *fresh* folder, does it work or not?
> 
> Waiting a long time doesn't appear to help.  When straced, it appears to
> deadlock on some synchronization:

I meant to click “cancel” at every warning window. There'll be a lot of
them, but in the end they'll disappear. You could try to start in
offline mode too (evolution --offline)

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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