(Probably OT)
Has anyone else noticed these flaky (new?) behaviors in Evo since the 5.2 upgrade:
- REALLY slow saving messages from inbox to another folder - search capability separated by folder instead of overall (with no option for control) - failure to autocomplete email addresses for known contacts
I think that's it. I was wondering if it was just me, or if others had noticed this. (If it's just me, there is no need to reply....)
Thanks.
mhr
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone else noticed these flaky (new?) behaviors in Evo since the 5.2 upgrade:
- failure to autocomplete email addresses for known contacts
I found something awry here, and I'm not sure if it's Evo, Gnome or CentOS (not a clue!):
I noticed this problem originally at home, but I rarely send emails out directly from Evo there, but then I noticed it here at work, too. So I opened the Contacts window. Okay, I tried to. I got an immediate error that Evo could not access my addressbook and to check and see if the path existed.
Here's the path: /home/mrichter/.evolution/addressbook/local/system
Here's what I found:
[mrichter@sushi ~]$ ll -d .evolution/ drwxr-xr-x 9 mrichter RnD 4096 Jul 9 16:05 .evolution//
[mrichter@sushi ~]$ ll .evolution/ total 168 drwxr-xr-x 4 mrichter RnD 4096 Jul 9 16:05 addressbook/ drwx------ 4 mrichter RnD 4096 Jun 3 13:32 cache/ drwxrwxr-x 5 mrichter RnD 4096 Jul 3 14:11 calendar/ -rw------- 1 mrichter RnD 3 Jul 9 16:05 camel-cert.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mrichter RnD 3152 Apr 29 12:25 categories.xml -rw------- 1 mrichter RnD 65536 Jul 9 16:05 cert8.db -rw------- 1 mrichter RnD 32768 Jul 9 16:05 key3.db drwxrwxr-x 8 mrichter RnD 4096 Jul 9 16:05 mail/ drwxrwxr-x 4 mrichter RnD 4096 Apr 29 12:25 memos/ -rw------- 1 mrichter RnD 32768 Apr 29 12:25 secmod.db drwx------ 2 mrichter RnD 4096 May 14 15:00 signatures/ drwxrwxr-x 4 mrichter RnD 4096 Apr 29 12:25 tasks/
[mrichter@sushi ~]$ ll .evolution/addressbook/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 mrichter RnD 4096 Apr 21 11:19 local/ -rw------- 1 mrichter RnD 68 Jul 9 16:05 searches.xml drwxr-xr-x 2 mrichter RnD 4096 May 16 10:13 views/
[mrichter@sushi ~]$ ll .evolution/addressbook/local/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 mrichter RnD 4096 Jun 20 19:48 system/
[mrichter@sushi ~]$ ll .evolution/addressbook/local/system/ total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 24576 Jun 19 16:24 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 mrichter RnD 4833 Jun 19 16:24 addressbook.db.summary
So I'm stumped - I own every single directory down the path to the addressbook, and the addressbook itself, and I have write rights to all of them.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
mhr
MHR wrote:
So I'm stumped - I own every single directory down the path to the addressbook, and the addressbook itself, and I have write rights to all of them.
Maybe it's not looking where you think it is looking..
I'd run the app with strace to find out what files it is attempting to open.
What I do is: strace -fF <command> 1>/tmp/strace.log 2>&1
nate
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:35 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Maybe it's not looking where you think it is looking..
I'd run the app with strace to find out what files it is attempting to open.
What I do is: strace -fF <command> 1>/tmp/strace.log 2>&1
I got a ton of output, but there is no addressbook at all in the trace.
Also:
1) /home is an NFS mount (with exact matches on userids), so the .evolution/ tree is also on the reomte system.
2) When I copied the old addressbook back in, Evo ignores it.
3) When I added a new contact, the file remains unchanged, but the contacts are visible in Evo.
4) I'm waiting for the nfs writeback to see what happens if I try this another way.
mhr
MHR wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:35 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Maybe it's not looking where you think it is looking..
I'd run the app with strace to find out what files it is attempting to open.
What I do is: strace -fF <command> 1>/tmp/strace.log 2>&1
I got a ton of output, but there is no addressbook at all in the trace.
I noticed that too, I'm not too familiar with evolution, but it seems to spawn another process that handles the address book which for some reason strace doesn't pick up, it must use another method other than fork to cause that process to spawn up.
Even after I exit evolution that process is running and has the addressbook file open.
from my debian desktop -
(starting with 0 evolution processes in the process list) aphro@vmware2:/tmp$ strace -fF evolution 1>/tmp/strace.log 2>&1 aphro@vmware2:/tmp$ lsof | grep address lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev Output information may be incomplete. evolution 4456 aphro 40u REG 8,1 12288 19447939 /home/aphro/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db evolution 4456 aphro 41r REG 8,1 87 19447942 /home/aphro/.evolution/addressbook/local/system/addressbook.db.summary (deleted) aphro@vmware2:/tmp$ grep 4456 strace.log (which means evolution never spawned that process via normal forking, which I don't recall ever encountering before, must be one of those new desktop app protocols that seem to be increasingly used)
aphro@vmware2:/tmp$ ps auxw | grep 4456 aphro 4456 0.6 0.2 67192 6692 ? Sl 17:38 0:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-1.6 --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_InterfaceCheck --oaf-ior-fd=54 aphro 4512 0.0 0.0 2848 712 pts/5 S+ 17:39 0:00 grep 4456 aphro@vmware2:/tmp$ grep addressbook.db strace.log
The next thing I suggest is stopping evolution, and killing all evolution processes on the system and starting evolution again and see if that fixes it.
nate
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
The next thing I suggest is stopping evolution, and killing all evolution processes on the system and starting evolution again and see if that fixes it.
Well, it didn't /fix/ the problem, but it did restore the original behavior (error opening the contacts address book).
I did notice that the addressbook.db file remained unchanged throughout all of this, but the addressbook.db.summary was different. I'm thinking maybe it somehow got corrupted by whatever changes went in between 5.1 and 5.2?
I've filed a bugzilla report against this with gnome, and, btw, also one for bug-buddy's refusal to submit bugzilla reports on gnome 2.16 because it's "too old."
Hopefully they will go somewhere....
Meanwhile, still open to suggestions.... Thanks!
mhr
On 7/9/08, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
The next thing I suggest is stopping evolution, and killing all evolution processes on the system and starting evolution again and see if that fixes it.
I have killed Evolution and restarted it, many times, in the past few weeks. The restarts don't do any good. There are intermittent problems with Evolution on GNOME.
Well, it didn't /fix/ the problem, but it did restore the original behavior (error opening the contacts address book).
I've tried to add several contacts to the address book and they do not get added, unless I go into Contacts and add them as "new" contacts. I do not remember this happening, before updating to CentOS 5.2.
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I've filed a bugzilla report against this with gnome, and, btw, also one for bug-buddy's refusal to submit bugzilla reports on gnome 2.16 because it's "too old."
Great. I have encountered the same problems. I was getting the error message that Evolution Calendar (which I never use) had crashed and then when I said OK, Bug Buddy can submit the error, I too got the message that Gnome is too old.
I am also getting delays, when I try to view an email in my Inbox, where it says that it is "formatting" the mail. Long time before I can view emails, at times.
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