[Linux-disciples] Transitioning from Mandrake to Debian

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Is this evolution from woody, sarge, or sid? There may still be some
issues being worked out as evolution migrates into sarge for the freeze.

I assume you checked the evolution Debian bug list?

I assume /home is an NFS share? Can you try temporarily moving it to a
local drive and see if you still get the error?

Also, if you are switching from Mandrake to Debian, the default NFS mount
options might be subtly different, which might lead to such problems.
There are several locking related options you might check out.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:58:15AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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