[Linux-disciples] Transitioning from Mandrake to Debian

[Stephen R Laniel]

A client and I are having some difficulties moving their
machines from Mandrake to Debian. The difficulties seem to
be showing up entirely inside of Evolution: we get fcntl
errors all the time when viewing messages, sending messages
... so much so that Evolution is effectively non-functional.
And yet it's exactly what my client wants and is used to, so
that's what I'd like to keep them on. It seems to be the
best integrated email/scheduling/contact-management program
for Linux.

A lot of googling leads to nothing. Some people have traced
this problem to NFS locking, but I doubt it: my client was
using Evolution over NFS for months before the switch to
Debian.

We deleted every single gnome dot-folder (.gconfd, .gnome2,
etc.) that we could find, every folder containing files that
looked Evolutiony (including, obviously, ~/.evolution and
~/evolution), everything inside of /tmp, everything in ~/tmp
... to no avail. We certainly erased a lot of Evolution
files: after some of those deletions, restarting Evolution
led to a new-user account-creation prompt. But the fcntl
error (often on the Inbox file) persists.

Does anyone here have any experience with such a problem?

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