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> 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.

> 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?

> 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