[Evolution-users] Evolution suddenly back to zero

[Milan Crha]

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 05:28 +0200, rsbrux via evolution-users wrote:
> produced a long list of error messages which are attached.

	Hi,
there happened something really bad with your Flatpak installation.
Missing locales point to broken installation of the org.gnome.Platform
or some such of them, not talking there should be installed also
*.Locale runtimes in the Flatpak to have it fully working.

I would try `flatpak repair`, whether it'll fix anything. If not, then
reinstall all of them (`flatpak list`), but that's a very last resort.

> (flatpak run:3589): dconf-WARNING **: 14:29:43.722: unable to open
> file '/etc/dconf/db/site': /etc/dconf/db/site: invalid gvdb header;
> expect degraded performance

This is new to me. I guess that path is inside the flatpak container,
not in the host system, but I'm not sure. May that file be corrupt?

> Error moving file ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/cache/evolution/
> mail/8652304cacd0c755c87997540b2259eb21c17aa7: File exists

Pity it does not show where it wants to move that file, or even whether
it's a destination or the source of the move. I guess it's a source,
and the source registry wanted to move the account data to the trash,
while that directory already exists in the trash. This is done when the
account was removed. There should be a
    8652304cacd0c755c87997540b2259eb21c17aa7.source

file somewhere under 

   ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/*/sources/

If it's not there, then the account definition is gone and it'll need
to be re-added. Similarly with the other two hashes in the log. I guess
you had configured three mail accounts, all remote (IMAP or EWS or
such).

The corresponding *.source files are needed, they contain the account
definitions. If they are gone, then evo does not see anything from
them.

	Bye,
	Milan