Re: [Evolution] Contacts borked

["Conrad O'Dea" <codea iona com>]

Hi, 

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:22 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> This is a known bug.
>
> Its because of some stupid setting in gentoo which resolves symbols
> immediately rather than lazily.  Try unsetting LD_BIND_NOW or
> something to equivalently turn it off.

I'm seeing the exact same behaviour running on RH 9 with evo and so on
installed using RedCarpet (current ver:
evolution1.5-.5.94.1.0.200409090630-0.snap.ximian.6.1)

There's no LD_BIND_NOW or similar environment variable 

Is there a bug number for this so I can add stack trace etc?

thanks
Conrad 


> It will be fixed by 2.0.0.
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 21:56 -0500, Michael Messmore wrote:  
> > I've skimmed through the mailing list archives and bugzilla but have not
> > found this mentioned.  If I'm incorrect, and this has been discussed,
> > feel free to point me in the right direction.
> >
> > I've been using Evolution 1.4 for a while, and was tempted into
> > compiling 1.5.93 by the webcal support, improved interface, etc.  I'm
> > using Gentoo BTW, and am doing all of this through portage.  Everything
> > works wonderfully, with the big exception of Contacts. I understand that
> > this is pre-2.0, but ideally I'd like to get it working, and at least
> > present this issue as a potential bug.
> >
> > All of my data was imported correctly, except I am completely lacking an
> > address book.  When I click on "Contacts" on the bottom right, I see an
> > empty white space where the mail tree resides, and nothing on the right
> > except grey.  If I right click on the empty white space I get  "New
> > Address Book", and greyed out I see "Delete" and "Properties".  If I
> > click "New Address Book" a new dialog is created, but before it fully
> > renders the application dies.  
> >
> > When reading emails, I can right-click on addresses and add them to
> > contacts, but they do not appear in the address book.  When composing a
> > message, if I click the "To:" button I get the expected dialog, but no
> > entries under the "Address Book", and obviously I have nothing to select
> > to move to the "To:", "Cc:", and "Bcc:" fields.  
> >
> > My Contacts do work fine using 1.4 and I wonder if for some reason 1.5
> > was not able to migrate them over properly, if the addressbook.db file
> > was somehow malformed, etc.  I  saw the executable "evolution-
> > addressbook-clean" in the /usr/libexec/evolution/1.5/ directory, and
> > when I run it, I see two entries: myself that I manually added by
> > running New->Contact while in the empty Contacts view, and one for the
> > Evolution List that I added by right clicking on an address in an email
> > I received on this list.
> >
> > Any suggestions you have would be much appreciated, and if you require
> > more information about my system, or you would like copies of files and
> > such, let me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike Messmore
> >
> >
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>
> Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com>
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