Re: evolution

["Y Uanlux" <yuanlux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 09:16 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:28 +0200, roland wrote:
> > I am running evolution 2.0
> > Starting evolution gives me an error:
> > The Application Evolution has quit unexpectedly
> > restart the application - Close
> >
> > When I choose restart, it stops evolution, so I am stucked.
> >
> > Is there some logfile or what can I do to detect the cause of the problem?
> >
> > Thank you for your help
> > --
> > Roland Brouwers
> > C.A.T. bvba
> >
> What fedora version are you using? hy don't you upgrade to a later
> version. In f7 the current version is evolution-2.10

In F8 it's 2.12 and in the upcoming F9 it's 2.22 (the numbering system
changed to reflect Gnome versions). 2.0 is several years old and fairly
buggy.

There is a very nice backup script for evolution. I can't recall its web site. thus, I paste it here, hope it helps

#!/bin/bash
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------#
#                                                                       #
# Description : Backup an evolution profil                              #
# OS          : Linux                                                   #
# Requires    : evolution - tar                                         #
# Version     : 0.1.4                                                   #
# Author      : Sebastien Bilbeau <sebastien.bilbeau CHEZ gmail.com>    #
# Web site    : http://www.tux-planet.fr/                               #
#                                                                       #
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------#

# Set script variable
USER=$(id -un)
GROUP=$(id -gn)
DATE=`date "+%F"`

# Go to user homedir
clear
cd /home/$USER

# Shutdown application
gconftool-2 --shutdown
evolution --force-shutdown

# Backup evolution setting
gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > evolution_setting.xml

# Make a restore help file
/bin/cat > RESTORE_README.txt <<FINCONFIG
#!/bin/bash
# To restore your evolution profil, after extract this archive file,
# use the following command :

cd /home/$USER
gconftool-2 --shutdown
evolution --force-shutdown
tar jxvf bkp-evolution-$DATE.tar.bz2
gconftool-2 --unload evolution_setting.xml
gconftool-2 --load evolution_setting.xml
rm -f evolution_setting.xml
FINCONFIG

# Compress and backup
nice -n +10 tar cfj bkp-evolution-$DATE.tar.bz2 --exclude=.evolution/mail/imap .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution .camel_certs evolution_setting.xml RESTORE_README.txt

# Remove tmp files
rm -f evolution_setting.xml
rm -f RESTORE_README.txt

# Change owner (for crontab use)
chown $USER:$GROUP bkp-evolution-$DATE.tar.bz2

# Display final backup message
echo "Evolution backup is finish !"


 

poc

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