...it made sense to create another user for Ubuntu.... Ignore the first for. I have got to spend more time reading what I write. Sorry.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > Try creating a new user and log in and set up evolution to pop his mail > again. In the past I have managed to mess up my main account so much that > it made sense to create another for user for Ubuntu and use that one > instead of my original account. > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:37 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > But, does anyone have any good suggestions for how to troubleshoot >> this? >> > > I did try "mark for reinstallation" of everything Evolution-related in >> > > Synaptec, but that didn't appear to change anything. >> > >> > Since we don't know exactly where the issue is, it could be anything >> > from something relatively benign to just shy of catastrophic. So to >> > start: >> > >> > 1) backup his data (image the whole disk if you can) >> >> Working on it. To start with, completely backed up the .evolution >> folder. >> >> > 2) boot a livecd and check the filesystem(s) >> >> See #1 >> >> > 3) check filesystems for inode usage, df -i >> >> See #1 >> >> > 4) for Firefox, check the user settings (Edit > Preferences > Privacy) >> >> Checked all those when he told me about the problem. Created a new >> profile. None of those things worked. >> >> > 5) for Evolution, not sure as I don't use it. My inclination would be >> > to switch to IMAP over POP as POP has all some unresolved issues[1]. >> >> Why would POP work with Evolution just fine up through November 24, but >> break on November 25? >> >> Point is, when you click "Send/Receive", Evolution will send, but will >> not even *attempt* to receive (according to Wireshark logs). Created >> new account in Evolution, no diff. in behavior. >> >> > There's a bunch of other things to try, but we gotta start somewhere. >> >> Also, a year or two back, he ran into a glitch with Evolution whereby, >> when you had something like 2GB in your inbox, it broke. I remember >> stumbling through that one, and managed to find a workaround (although >> he lost some of his accumulated junk) ... so I can't help wondering if >> he hasn't hit some other undocumented limitation? >> >> Again, point is, worked just fine at 2200 on 24 Nov 2009 ... broken at >> 0830 on 25 Nov 2009. >> >> For another fun experiment, I just now logged on to his machine, then >> set up Evolution with his username and password ... and it works just >> fine. That points to it NOT being a physical hard drive issue, but >> instead being some weird tipping point like the one I ran into in the >> past. >> >> Evidently, Evolution has some limitations as to how much you can keep in >> which directories, and he max'ed that out. At least that's my best >> guess. No clue on Firefox (but didn't have time to test that out yet). >> >> > Good luck and let us know how things go. >> >> Always fun for the holidays! >> >> My notion for a fix is to go shopping online for a new computer and >> surprise him with an early Xmas gift! >> >> :-) >> >> (although unless I can do better teaching him to a) back up his data and >> b) not keep 2GB of *crap* in his inbox, not sure if it will help all >> that much) >> >> Theresa >> >> -- >> Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) >> Main page: http://www.cwelug.org >> To post: [email protected] >> To subscribe: [email protected] >> To unsubscribe: [email protected] >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug >> > > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
