Retitle 295270 Mails can't be deleted if there's not enough disk space Tags 295270 upstream thanks
Hola Albert Cahalan!
> > Lots of information is missing from your report, that will be needed to
> > fix the problem. (I use evolution and delete mail everyday, so clearly
> > there's a problem related to your specific configuration).
> I may have guessed the problem. I had less free disk space than the size of
> the Inbox file, but not zero disk space either. I suspect that
> evolution corrupts the mail files when this happens.
Yes, this sounds like the reason of the problem. Thus, I'm retitling.
> Of course, this should not happen.
> Additionally, it ought to recover by regenerating the summary data and
> index. I got it to recover by manually deleting several files; these
> were then rebuilt.
Ok, although I agree that what you experienced was not right, but I find
that the bug was that the message was not clear enough.
If your disk is full, you'll experience many many problems, you'll lose
data and things like that. So it's not a good idea to have a full disk. I
don't think that Evolution should find a way to delete the messages even if
there isn't enough space, however, it should tell you what the problem is
and let you fix it.
> > Are you using sarge or sid?
> set to unstable, whatever that is, and somewhat recently updated
Ok, that's sid.
> > What filesystem type is your /home ?
> > Is it local or is it shared through NFS ?
> Plain ext2.
Not that it's related, but I seriously recommend migrating to ext3, it's
a simple migration and it's really a better filesystem.
> > What happens if you delete & expunge just one message instead of 500 ?
> At this point, I can not tell. Sorry.
> (while I know this would help for debugging, please do not imagine this
> to be a reasonable work-around if it would have worked)
It was only intended for debugging purposes. With what you've told me, I'd
say that probably the same thing happened.
Thanks for all the input, I'll forward this to upstream, I hope they'll be
able to fix it.
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Bezitos,
Maggie.
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