Re: [Fwd: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Addressbook vanished]

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:49 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: 
> hi jules,
>
> uhmm... sent my answer unexpectedly to evolution users list (where it
> belongs, by the way... ;-). sorry.

OK, answering to the same list. I just assumed that making evo contacts
put out additional debugging info would be better answered at the
hackers list. Sorry for the cross-post..


> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:49 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: 
> > Am Freitag, den 19.08.2005, 14:44 +0200 schrieb Jules Colding:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My contacts vanished suddenly while running Evolution 2.2.3 on Gentoo.
> > > The db is still there, and big, but the Contacts component doesn't show
> > > any. 
> > >
> > > Any specific environment flags that I my turn on to get usable debug
> > > output to report to the list?
> >
> > not for the contacts afaik. you can find the available options at the
> > section "Debugging Evolution's Crashes" at
> > <http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml>.
> >
> > is there any output if you start evo from the shell?

Nothing that shouldn't be there. The old contacts just simply doesn't
show up anymore. I have reported this as Bug #314148.

> > how many addressbooks do you have?

One (local).

> > also, the addressbooks evo owns are stored in its settings, and the
> > settings are stored in gconf [1] at the key
> > "/apps/evolution/addressbook/sources". what does that key contain at
> > your computer?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<group uid="1121990567 13235 0 omc-2" name="On This Computer"
base_uri="file:///home/colding/.evolution/addressbook/local"
readonly="no"><source uid="1121990567 13235 1 omc-2" name="Personal"
relative_uri="system"><properties><property name="completion"
value="true"/></properties></source></group>

Thanks,
  jules