[plug] Evolution 2 .0 data migration of vfolders

[Onno Benschop]

Ryan wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>Just letting people know this incase they come up against it.
>
>Installed Evolution 2.0.3 from debian testing.  Upgrading from 1.4.6.
>It has a migration wizard that comes up on the first run which rejigs
>everything and puts the new data in ~/.evolution
>
>The process got through all the folders, then crashed.  Opened it again,
>went through all the folders again (telling it to overwrite everything
>as it has detected all the previouly converted folders as well) then it
>crashed again.
>
>Open again, instant crash. etc.
>
>I ran strace and saw this:
>
>open("/home/ryan/.evolution/mail/vfolder/linux-sony at insue.com mailing
>list.cmeta", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>
>That vfolder is the first vfolder of about 5 I have setup.  I looked in
>that folder and it was indeed not there.   The Evolution migration
>either can not handle vfolders, or my setup was corrupt in the first
>place - unlikley as the vfolders used to work in 1.4.6.
>
>So I deleted  ~/.evolution/mail/vfolders.xml
>
>Evolution starts nicely, time to recreate your vfolders :)
>  
>
Hmm, seems that logging bug reports is a waste of time then:

    http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=69566
    http://bugs.debian.org/291757

:-)

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