Re: [Evolution] Unable to open addressbook

[Alex S Moore <asmoore edge net>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:10, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi alex,
>
> because of your header i presume that you use evolution 1.4.

Correct.  I have tried a recent version, 1.4.6 I think, but had some
other problems.  However, the pkg came from somewhere else and worked
for a few days, until the pango library was updated.  Then I started
getting crashes on a particular font, so I went back to this
installation.

> my addressbook is located at "~/evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db"
> access permissions are: -rw-------

I have -rw-r--r-- on my main account, which fails and the same on my
secondary account, which works fine.

> > The message detail is:
> > 'We are unable to open this addressbook.  Please check that the path
> > exists and that you have permission to access it.'
>
> is this a normal error window in gnome or did you start evolution from
> console/terminal/shell? if not, post the output from shell, perhaps it
> provides more information...

That message was a message in gnome.  From a console, the output is as
follows.  This is on Solaris 9 sparc.
<<
[amoore sws602 amoore]$ (Killing old version of Wombat...)
calendar-gui-Message: launch_alarm_daemon_cb(): Could not activate the
alarm notification service

(evolution-1.4:15715): EBook-WARNING **: e_book_construct: Could not
obtain a handle to the Personal Addressbook Server with IID
`OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Wombat_ServerFactory'

(evolution-1.4:15715): EBook-WARNING **: Couldn't activate any book
factories.

(evolution-1.4:15715): EBook-WARNING **: e_book_construct: Could not
obtain a handle to the Personal Addressbook Server with IID
`OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Wombat_ServerFactory'

(evolution-1.4:15715): EBook-WARNING **: Couldn't activate any book
factories.
<<

I am open to any ideas.  I have been working on this for many months
now.  I have tried a lot of mua programs.  I also use SylpheedClaws and
Mulberry, but Evolution is my favorite.  The indexes or whatever it is
called in Evolution is incredible.

One of my folders has over 10,000 messages and displays instantly in
Evolution with a sort of date descend and threaded, about 45 seconds to
display in SylpheedClaws and instantly in Mulberry if I use the imap msg
nbr for the sequence.

BTW, Evolution worked great on my main account for a couple of months
and then something went sour.

Thanks, Alex