On Sunday 31 March 2019 13:32:58 William Morder wrote: > 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 am, but I've also been collecting iso's. > 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 I've been dreading the upgrade because the one machine I did put stretch on took me about a month to figure out how to make it apply a route statement. Then of course theres all the paranoia to deal with just trying to make an ssh login work. What the hell is it with these people that makes them want to destroy your ability to use your local network from a comfy chair anyway? Its BS is what it is. I am not in the least worried about outside hackers as theres a copy of dd-wrt between all my stuff and the black hatters. In 15 years I've had one person come thru that, and I had to give him the addresses and passwords because I needed networking help, about 10 years ago. But the time is coming when at least this machine will need to be updated, hopefully to buster, so I don't have to do it again next month. Whats the kmail problem in jessie? or stretch? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>