Re: [Evolution] Unable to fetch mail after unsafe shutdown

[Jason Ansel <evolution bean-o com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 23:06, Not Zed wrote: 
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 23:00 -0400, Jason Ansel wrote: 
> > My computer shutdown unexpectedly/abruptly because I made a typo when
> > modifying the source of a kernel module.
> >
> > Evolution must have been in the middle of something right before this
> > unsafe shutdown, because now it seems to be stuck in somewhat broken
> > state.
> >
> > Whenever i try to fetch mail from a remote server i get the error
> > message:
> >
> > [QUOTE]
> > Error while 'Fetching Mail':
> > Unable to connect to POP server mail.someserver.com
> > Error sending password: Operation now in progress.
> > [/QUOTE]
> This error shouldn't have anything to do with the crash as such. 
> Although I could be wrong.  Can't see how though.
>
> You could try removing ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution and/or run 'forget
> passwords', so that it tries to connect cleanly.

I ran 'forget passwords'.  Closed evolution.  Moved
~/.gnome2_private/Evolution to a different location.  Started
evolution.  It asked me for my password.  Then gave the same error to me
again.

I don't think this error has to do with unclean connections, because it
happens with multiple servers/protocols.


> If that doesn't help, perhaps trying to use strace to find out what
> system call is failing and where.

I saved the output of strace, couldn't see anything obvious.  But I'm
not exactly sure what I'm looking for.  I can send it to you, but its
rather large (2.3 mb), and should prolly not the sent to the entire
list.


> -- 
>
> Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com>
> "born to die, live to work, it's
> all downhill from here"
> Novell's Evolution and Free
> Software Developer


Thanks for the reply,
Jason Ansel