Re: [Evolution] Evolution Data Server and KNOPPIX 3.4 (05-04-2004)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 11:11 -0400, Brian Ellis wrote:
> * If this is a repeat I appologize...
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm sorry if this has been answered before, but so far I haven't had any
> luck finding a solution.
>
> This is a fresh install of Knoppix running on the stock 2.4.26 kernel.
> Evolution was installed by apt-get (the evolution-1.5 package and the
> evolution-data-server package out of the experimental tree). I also
> installed the entire gnome desktop in case there was a missing package
> in knoppix (apt-get install gnome-desktop). 
>
> When I start Evolution, the mail all works fantastic. But when I click
> on the Address Book I get...
>
> "We were unable to open this addressbook.  Please check that the path
> exists and that you have permission to access it."
>
> I get a similar error when trying to add an event to the calendar saying
> there is no active calendar. When I run evolution from a terminal I get
> the following:
>
> asked to activate component_id
> `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Component:1.5
> '
>
> (evolution-1.5:2875): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_construct: Could not
> obtain a                                            handle to the
> Personal Addressbook Server with IID `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataS
> erver_BookFactory:1.0'
>
> So I figured all of this must be handled by the evolution-data-server.
> With evolution running I run 'ps aux | grep evolution' and see several
> instances of evolution-1.5 and the evolution-alarm-notify running but no
> data server running. So I close down evolution and run the evolution
> data server directly...
>
> $ /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server
> evolution-data-server-Message: Starting server
>
> Fatal error: Cannot allocate memory
> Aborted

Make sure you're running the right one, e.g. mine is in ${prefix}/libexec/evolution-data-server-1.0 
(but maybe the knoppix packages are munged so perhaps you're right).

Anyway, sounds like a 'memory' bug, run it in gdb and get a backtrace, and submit a bug report to bugzilla.ximian.com.

> Has anyone else run into this problem? 
> /usr/sbin/bonobo-activation-sysconf --display-directories 
>
> returns nothing but /usr/lib/bonobo/servers seems to have all of the
> evolution .server files anyways. 
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian Ellis
> SaberLogic

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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