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bobheff

Member

Registered: 2011-04-16

Posts: 3

Problem with evolution

My installation of evolution is having trouble downloading my mail.  It was working fine yesterday but perhaps I upgraded something that broke it (I've been running pacman -Syu and yaourt -Syau pretty often).  Evolution starts up find but seems to have trouble retrieving my mail.  I can telnet to the pop server fine so this isn't the problem.

The following errors are printed if I run evolution from a terminal:

(evolution:3472): GLib-CRITICAL **: the GVariant format string `(u)' has a type of `(u)' but the given value has a type of `(s)'

(evolution:3472): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get: assertion `valid_format_string (format_string, TRUE, value)' failed
Migrating cached data
Migrating config data
Migrating local user data
  mv /home/bob/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db /home/bob/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/folders.db
  FAILED: Destination file already exists
  rmdir /home/bob/.evolution/mail/local
  FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows)
          folders.db
  rmdir /home/bob/.evolution/tasks
  FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows)
          tasks
  rmdir /home/bob/.evolution/mail
  FAILED: Directory not empty (contents follows)
          local

Any ideas?  Google gives me one or two hits for similar errors but no solutions.

Crimsonknave

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Registered: 2008-09-18

Posts: 23

Re: Problem with evolution

Well, if you don't need any of the mail on the local system you can try removing the directories/files it is complaining about... Sorry I don't have an actual, good solution.