Re: debugging evolution-vcard-importer. Was: Re: [Evolution] error on .vcf (vcards) import

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 14:34 +0200, Stan Pinte wrote:
> > > 
> > > an idea?
> > BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH is the important one, it needs to point to the
> > relevent .server file.
> > 
> > And to debug stuff like this, run evo, get to the importer stage, then
> > attach to the process with gdb before doing the actual import.  The
> > importer process should be activated before it runs.
>
> well, the problem is that evolution kills the process when importing the
> vcards a second time (I think he checks if a process is openened, then
> kills it.)
>
> $ ps -aux | grep vcard
> Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
PS use posix syntax if you use -, e.g. "ps -elf", or use bsd syntax with no dash, i.e. "ps aux"

> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
> test-ev  13483  0.0  1.0 24696 5584 ?        S    14:31   0:00
> /usr/lib/evolution/1.4/evolution-vcard-importer
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_VCard_ImporterFactory --oaf-ior-fd=25
> test-ev  13486  0.0  0.1  3640  708 pts/7    R+   14:31   0:00 grep
> vcard
> $ ps -aux | grep vcard
> Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
> test-ev  13500  0.0  1.0 24696 5584 ?        S    14:32   0:00
> /usr/lib/evolution/1.4/evolution-vcard-importer
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_VCard_ImporterFactory --oaf-ior-fd=25
> test-ev  13502  0.0  0.1  3640  708 pts/7    R+   14:32   0:00 grep
> vcard
> $
Ahh ok.

Well, uh, just connect to the one thats running at the point it asked you to do the import (i.e file selected, etc), it should always be the right one for that run.

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

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