Comment 27 for bug 293207

Greetings,

I have applied all of the patches available with no change in status. In
order to use evolution at all, I deleted all meta info files as well as all
of the index files. I then restarted Evolution. I now have access to
Evolution and all of my email. However, now when I attempt to retrieve
email, it is EXTREMELY slow -- almost unusable. I don't know what else to
try now. Any suggestions?

Peter

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 7:11 AM, hggdh <email address hidden> wrote:

> Why we do not see more people affected... beats me. I have been running
> the new code since very early in the development cycle, and I do not
> remember hitting this issue. Of course, I was hit by many others,
> including losing all local mail (as a result of the changes that force
> the migration). I do not know if this is a specific issue, or a generic
> one (but I tend to a specific, for a series of reasons).
>
> David, I would really appreciate if you could get a stacktrace from a
> conversion that is hanging (see two comments above for how to).
>
> --
> Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293207
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>
> Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool: Unknown
> Status in "evolution" source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> 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 address hidden>
>
> WORKAROUND:
>
> Test packages are available at https://launchpad.net/~hggdh2/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Ehggdh2/+archive>.
> Please install them and report back.
>