Re: [Evolution] Debug Evo Calendar functions?

[Greg Tassone <greg tassone net>]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:01 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
[SNIPPED]
> > My Evolution data is SO BROKEN after that failed gpilot sync that even
> > blowing away my ".evolution/calendar" and ".evolution/tasks" directories
> > STILL won't allow new items to be added to the new calendar.  (This was
> > after running "evolution --force-shutdown", of course.)  Something in my
> > data's state has been damaged by gpilot somehow and I CANNOT GET IT
> > UNSTUCK.
> >
> > HOW DO I FIX THIS???
> >
> > Even my critical bug on Bugzilla has gone totally without response.
> > This is not instilling confidence in the product, the team, etc.
>
> No, it wouldn't be would it ... But fwiw, your bug is one of 10's of
> hundreds, so it isn't unusual there is no response to a bug in only a
> week - bugs are prioritised and it takes a long time to fix even simple
> ones.  It is physically impossible to attend to all bugs with immediacy.

I understand completely, and I'm sorry for the desperate nature of my
post.  I had been trying to be patient, but I'm working under massive
deadlines and I can only go without a calendar for so long.  I really
appreciate you all taking the time to help me/us.


> Anyway, there will be additional state stored in gconf, you may be able
> to just delete stuff there.  If you remove the files themselves, make
> sure you run gconftool-2 --shutdown first.  Note that it stores the list
> of all calendars/addressbooks and all mail accounts there too, so you
> probably don't want to just delete everything (then again mayube you do
> want to delete all of the calendar/addressbook stuff, if you just
> shutdown/mv it somewhere else, you can always restore it afterwards).

I had deleted the "calendar" and "tasks" directories before with no
results.  However, I didn't know to stop gconfd with that command first.
Thanks for this gem, as this time my problem was instantly resolved!

Again, thanks for the help.  I now have a properly working calendar and
tasks subsystem again.  I'll go close the bug now.

Greg