31 Mar
2019
31 Mar
'19
5:32 p.m.
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 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