Evolution problems after upgrade to ubuntu 11.10

Bug #877534 reported by hegdo
14
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
New
Critical
evolution (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10.

Evolution decided to change my personal options. The option under "receiving options - message storage" was changed to: delete after 7 days. I LOST thousands of email. I can not access any of my email anymore from remote location via the web interface. This really sucks. This is very very very bad written code. It caused me a lot of problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evolution 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 18 11:39:17 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (3 days ago)
XsessionErrors:
 (nautilus:2615): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
 (nautilus:2615): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
 (gwibber-service:2789): libindicate-WARNING **: Menu being changed when the indicator is visible. Listeners will NOT be notified of this change.
 (gedit:3148): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to retrieve the file info for `file:///home/henry/Documents/Work/BSC/evdo_Neighbors_20111018.txt': Error stating file '/home/henry/Documents/Work/BSC/evdo_Neighbors_20111018.txt': No such file or directory
 (eog:4793): EOG-WARNING **: Couldn't load icon: Icon 'image-loading' not present in theme

Revision history for this message
hegdo (hegdo) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Neil De Mel (nawaneel) wrote :

 I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 and Evolution refused to load after the upgrade. Luckily, I backed up Evolution data prior to upgrade.

Ubuntu 11.10 has changed the default email client from Evolution to Thunderbird. Please refer release notes for 11.10 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes

It would be advisable to warn all up-graders of Ubuntu 11.10 to backup their Evolution files prior to upgrade.

Revision history for this message
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

Neil: please file a new, separate bug report for your issues; if evolution refuses to load this is a different issue than losing email messages.

hegdo, was there such an option set previously? Also, you can set "Delete after X days" to 0 to tell Evolution not to automatically delete messages.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: evo-upgrade-lost-msg
Revision history for this message
iMac (imac-netstatz) wrote :

The issue regarding loosing data on a change in history retention seems pretty bad.. I opened a bug upstream. Anyone who has this issue should provide more details upstream.

Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Critical
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
iMac (imac-netstatz) wrote :

Fixed upstream in 3.2.2.

Revision history for this message
Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello hegdo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted evolution-data-server into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.