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Send-receive doesn't work after disk crash

Asked by Leroy Wolins

I was able to partially recover from a disk crash by using "fsck -y" in maintenance mode with the root file system mounted in read only mode. everything appears OK except send-receive doesn't work. I know I have Email because I can access my mail from a web cite provided by my Email provider. I have reentered the address and password for Evolution. Any suggestions?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

First try to reinstall Evolution without loosing your previous settings.

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Thank you

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Leroy Wolins (corlee) said : 		#2

I tried this. I used the Synaptic Package Manager rather than the terminal. But I believe that did what you suggest. Currently, I am exploring the error message I get when I execute Send-Receive: Could not execute/usr/sbin/sendmail. Then I did a search and found three files with "sendmail" as part of the file, but not in the specified folder. also those three files had extensions:one had .conduit, and the other two had .so. I might be missing an execute file that should be in the file specified in the error message.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

"But I believe that did what you suggest" ... I strongly suggest you to use terminal, to be sure.
Simply open terminal and copy and paste the row, then give your password.

Thank you

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Leroy Wolins (corlee) said : 		#4

I did precisely what you asked me to do, except I could not cut and paste since I'm using a different machine to Email. But the operation proceeded successfully. The terminal reported no errors. However the results are precisely the same as obtained using the Package Manager. The same error message occurred, as previously mentioned. The error message makes no sense. I have three other machines with UBUNTU installed, and none of them have a sendmail file in usr/sbin. Thank you for your suggestion. I would willingly try anything else you can suggest.

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Leroy Wolins (corlee) said : 		#5

More interesting (?) developmennts: When I click om Evolution, the Terminal boots up. The terminal box contains the following message: CalDar Eplugin starting up \evolution-shell-message:killing old version of evolution-data-server... Loading Spamassassin as the default plugin./
After that, evolution boots, and I click on Send/Receive and I get the following error: Could not send message: Broken pipe

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Leroy Wolins (corlee) said : 		#6

I completely reinstalled Ubuntu. This involved about 2 1/2 hours of downloads, but everything appears to work (for the moment). A probable cause was registry corruption from the disk crash. In turn, the probable cause of the disk crash is I have two hard drives that I connect and disconnect so I can boot either Windows Vista or UBUNTU. I use Vista for work and UBUNTU for play , mostly. I never have both disks connected at the same time. So, I suspect that the corruption was caused by a loose connection.

Since "the weather outside is frightful," I will now attempt to hook both drives up at the same time and see if I can disable one or the other with the BIOS so that Vista doesn't object to the second drive. So the problem is solved, but I may be creating a new one.