On Sunday 31 March 2019 15:07:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 31 March 2019 13:32:58 William Morder wrote: > > On Sunday 31 March 2019 09:26:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I just stopped it, reinstalled everything kmail related in a > > > synaptic search, and restarted it from the tde menu. It immediately > > > reported two bad indices, for folders emc and spam-hold, and took 32 > > > minutes to scan those 2 folders and open its gui. > > > > > > I own as gene:gene with perms from 600 to 644 in the /home/gene/Mail > > > subdir. It is NOT updating now for 4 days, the files > > > in /home/gene/Mail/emc/cur to indicate read or important by > > > appending the > > > ':2,S' or ':2,RS' but it is generating new indices, 2 of them > > > everytime it tries to scan that folder, so it CAN create/write to > > > that folder. > > > > > > There are around 60100 messages in that folder, and the indice files > > > are drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Mar 31 12:08 emc > > > -rw------- 1 gene gene 44551163 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 240389 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index.ids > > > > > > These 2 files have been nuked to see if a rebuild fixes it, no. > > > And now everthing kmail, about 8 packages, has been re-installed > > > from the local archive since the mirror is missing now for several > > > days. > > > > > > Is there a fix? Or can it be fixed short of installing a stretch > > > netinstall on a new drive? > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > You mention Stretch. Is that what you are running now? (or perhaps > > ascii, since you mention netinstall?) I seem to recall that you were > > still running Wheezy. > > I am, but I've also been collecting iso's. > > > I bring up this question because I haven't been able to upgrade to > > stretch/ascii for similar reasons, but am still stuck with jessie. It > > runs great now (after a long process of pruning, tweaking, grooming > > and other fiddling round); but when I try to upgrade to stretch/ascii, > > it's always these same few problems that prevent my continuing, and > > Kmail is one of the big problems. > > > > When I boot up now (in Devuan Jessie), I get an error window about > > rebuilding indices, etc. (which, I admit, bothers me); but then, I > > click on a button to rebuild, and it's done quickly and painlessly, so > > it doesn't bother me enough to worry, cuz I gots all my emails and > > that's what matters for NOW. But later ... when at last I am forced to > > upgrade ... ? In stretch/ascii, though, I don't even have this option; > > I just don't have a working Kmail. > > > > My other issue is with wireless networking, which is unavailable to me > > in ascii/stretch, due to some renaming of the wifi interface (or a > > deeper issue, perhaps) from wlan0 (in jessie) to wlx00027288d1fd (in > > stretch/ascii). This is probably an issue unrelated to Kmail, but > > maybe not? Also, I cannot tell if it is a problem only with TDE, or is > > more an issue with Devuan, or the Ascii release. > > > > In any case, I would like someday to upgrade to Devuan Ascii, and > > maybe go even farther, to Buster, etc. So I want to solve these > > problems now, so that later I won't be lost in the wilderness without > > a working computer. > > > > Bill > > I've been dreading the upgrade because the one machine I did put stretch > on took me about a month to figure out how to make it apply a route > statement. > > Then of course theres all the paranoia to deal with just trying to make > an ssh login work. What the hell is it with these people that makes > them want to destroy your ability to use your local network from a comfy > chair anyway? Its BS is what it is. > > I am not in the least worried about outside hackers as theres a copy of > dd-wrt between all my stuff and the black hatters. In 15 years I've had > one person come thru that, and I had to give him the addresses and > passwords because I needed networking help, about 10 years ago. > > But the time is coming when at least this machine will need to be > updated, hopefully to buster, so I don't have to do it again next month. > > Whats the kmail problem in jessie? or stretch? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett P.S. But in Ascii/Stretch, Kmail is essentially useless to me, and I cannot configure my wireless networking. Otherwise, I would have upgraded by now. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
