bug#39677: Evolution's inbox widget is blank

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> 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@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 15:20, raingloom <raingloom@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

I haven't used Evolution for a long time, so if no one else reported
this, then hopefully it means it's no longer an issue.