Evolution Error Expunging
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:37:54 -0400 Hi folks, I'm running evolution 2.28.3 on Xubuntu 10.4(b) and am having trouble emptying trash. Essentially evolution is unable to store folders, noting mismatches betwee summaries and folders, even after a sync. I found one reference on Ubuntu's list suggesting that a user delete summary files for the afflicted folder, but that must have been for older versions of evolution. I find no summary folders, at least using the filename convention the poster used. Any thoughts on how I can clear this up? My trash folder is getting mighty full. With best regards, Pete -- Peter N. Spotts | Science reporter The Christian Science Monitor 210 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA 02115 USA Office: 617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts alum mit edu | Skype: pspotts www.csmonitor.com | www.w1pns.net | Amateur-radio call: W1PNS "The knack of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss." -- Douglas Adams, "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" "I just bought a 12-pound theropod for Thanksgiving Dinner." -- From a paleontology email list Follow-Ups: Re: [Evolution] Error expunging folder -- in spades From: Patrick O'Callaghan [Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index] The GNOME Project About Us Get Involved Teams Support GNOME Contact Us The GNOME Foundation Resources Developer Center Documentation Wiki Mailing Lists IRC Channels Bug Tracker Development Code Build Tool News Press Releases Latest Release Planet GNOME Development News Identi.ca Twitter Copyright © 2005 - 2013 The GNOME Project. Optimised for standards. Hosted by Red Hat. Powered by MailMan, Python and GNU.
-0400 On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 09:51 -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: While trying to expunge my "Spam_Junk" folder, I get the following error message: Error while Expunging folder. Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync While trying to empty my Trash folder, I get the following error message: Error while Expunging folder. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2010-March/msg00156.html Error storing `~/.evolution/mail/local/Spam_Junk (mbox)': Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync Anyone have any ideas about how to solve this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Are you sure you're not running out of space? An mbox is a potentially huge file with https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-December/msg00132.html an entire folder in it, and expunging in this case means selectively copying it to another file before removing it, i.e. the space overhead can greatly increase during the process. Just a thought ... poc Follow-Ups: Re: [Evolution] Error Expunging Folders From: Rick Friedman References: [Evolution] Error Expunging Folders From: Rick Friedman [Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Thread Index] [Date Index] [Author Index] The GNOME Project About Us Get Involved Teams Support GNOME Contact Us The GNOME Foundation Resources Developer Center Documentation Wiki Mailing Lists IRC Channels Bug Tracker Development Code Build Tool News Press Releases Latest Release Planet GNOME Development News Identi.ca Twitter Copyright © 2005 - 2013 The GNOME Project. Optimised for standards. Hosted by Red Hat. Powered by MailMan, Python and GNU.
evolution (Ubuntu) Edit Invalid Low Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: evolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657173 (Ubuntu) Filed here by: dree When: 2010-10-09 Completed: 2010-11-10 Target Distribution http://www.expatpaul.eu/2010/04/fixing-corrupt-mail-folders-in-evolution/ Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex Edu Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance Invalid Low Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about evolution error changes to this bug report Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description Binary package hint: evolution i get this notification "error while expunging folder" when i empty trash on evolution mail. i use karmic koala. from the disk usage analyzer i found out that my home partition only has evolution error expunging 6 MB space left ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 9 10:02:06 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: evolution 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.65-generic SourcePackage: evolution Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1602): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (nautilus:1701): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1714): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (evolution:1705): camel-WARNING **: Error storing '~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)': Writing to temporary mailbox failed: /home/labqc/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: No such file or directory (evolution:1705): camel-WARNING **: Error storing '~/.evolution/mail/local/Sent (mbox)': Error storing '~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)': Writing to temporary mailbox failed: /home/labqc/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: No such file or directory Tags: apport-bug i386 Edit Tag help dree (cutecodewz) wrote on 2010-10-09: #1 Dependencies.txt Edit (6.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8") ProcMaps.txt Edit (60.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8") ProcStatus.txt Edit (759 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8") Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-10-13: #2 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help
does end abnormally (by a sudden, and unexpected system restart, for example), the database managing the various mailbox files and folders can become corrupted. It's taken me all morning to find a solution - one that turned out to be annoyingly simple in its effectiveness. The Evolution error messages are a bit terse and corrupted data can be indicated by one or more of the following error messages: Emptying Trash Fails with ‘Error while expunging folder' Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync Error while Expunging folder Evolution: error storing ‘~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox (mbox)' The solution that finally worked was this one: Close Evolution client Move file /home/dc/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db to trash Restart Evolution again. It will rebuild the database and everything should synch successfully. Poking around various bug trackers did suggest that there have also been problems with some of the metadata files. So if the above fix on its own doesn't work, it might be worth trying the following: Switch Evolution to Offline mode (File -> Work Offline) Close Evolution client Shut down Evolution: evolution --force-shutdown Remove the metadata files: find ~/.evolution/mail/local -name "*ev-summary" -exec rm -f {} \; find .evolution -name \*index.data -exec rm -f {} \; find .evolution -name \*index -exec rm -f {} \; find .evolution -name \*cmeta -exec rm -f {} \; Start Evolution client Wait until the status bar at the bottom is empty. This could take several seconds. Close Evolution client. This may take a while Start Evolution client Switch Evolution back to Online mode (File -> Work Online) If all else fails, you can always delete everything and start again: Backup your files! (File -> Backup Settings) Start deleting: rm -rf ~/.evolution rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/evolution evolution -force-shutdown Find the process ID for ‘gconfd’: ps -ef|grep gconfd. This will return a line that looks like this: YourUserID 1485 1 0 13:56 ? 00:00:03 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2The 1485, in this case is the process ID Kill that process: kill 1485 Start Evolution client. You will be prompted to start creating your accounts. Author PaulPosted on April 6, 2010April 7, 2010Categories LinuxTags Ubuntu 5 thoughts on “Fixing Corrupt Mail Folders in Evolution” Carl says: December 10, 2011 at 8:45 am Thanks for Posting t