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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 39677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39677: Evolution's inbox widget is blank
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:34:16 +0200

Hi,

It is about this old bug#39677 [1].  Sorry for not noticing it before.

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39677>


On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 at 17:53, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 15:20, raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> I've been haunted by this for months, so it's high time I make a proper bug
>> report.
>>
>> I wiped all Evolution related directories I could find in .cache, .config, and
>> .local, and reconfigured it from scratch, but that didn't help.
>>
>> When I open Evolution it prompts me for my password and pulls my emails
>> without a problem, even shows a notification for them, but it doesn't
>> display anything.
>>
>> It's not a font issue, because the scroll bar does not appear. There are no
>> emails displayed at all. Double clicking on it should open a mail in a new
>> window, but no window appears.
>>
>> I tried it in a VM that's a slight modification of my system, that had no
>> problems.
>> I also tried it in both i3wm and Gnome, but the results are identical.
>>
>> All I see in the log is this:
>> ```
>> (evolution:23706): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 15:17:11.805: Your application did not
>> unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider using g_application_run().
>> ```
>>
>> I can send an strace log if necessary. The one I took was a bit long and
>> didn't reveal much, but someone might have better luck.
>>
>> Any tips on where I should look?
>>
>> I suspect that it either doesn't play nice with some other package or that
>> there is some state corruption I couldn't track down.
>>
>> For now I'll just use Geary for this account.
>
> Well, I am not an user of Evolution.  The question is: is it still an
> issue for you?  If yes, are you running Guix on foreign distro?  Or Guix
> System?

Without any answer since 18 Oct 2022 (51 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours ago), I
deduce it is not an issue anymore.  So I am going to close this issue
soon.

Cheers,
simon

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