Re: [Evolution] Address book funcionality turned off

[Sushma Rai <rsushma novell com>]

Error message 
"(evolution-2.4:16972): libebook-WARNING **: Can't find installed
BookFactories"
is indicates that it is not finding the book factories.
Verify your BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH ?

-Sushma.

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 15:57 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> In an earlier reply, I said I thought this had been solved. However it's
> back on one machine, but not on the other.
>
> I simply started Evo and tried to compose a message. Autocompletion
> should have worked but didn't. I can send and recieve mail, but can't do
> anything with address books (such as search for a contact).
>
> Then I tried starting e-d-s manually (this is a fresh session BTW):
>
> <log>
> [poc shire ~]$ ps ax|grep evo
> 16767 ?        Sl
> 0:00 /opt/evolution/libexec/evolution/2.4/evolution-alarm-notify
> --sm-config-prefix /evolution-alarm-notify-klwBoZ/ --sm-client-id
> 10d8686972000111715323700000050400009 --screen 0
> 16967 pts/3    S+     0:00 grep evo
> [poc shire ~]$ /opt/evolution/bin/evolution-2.4
> evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server...
> adding hook target 'source'
>
> (evolution-2.4:16972): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called
> with NULL parameter.
>
> (evolution-2.4:16972): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called
> with NULL parameter.
>
> (evolution-2.4:16972): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion
> `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
>
> (evolution-2.4:16972): libebook-WARNING **: Can't find installed
> BookFactories
>
> (evolution-2.4:16972): libebook-WARNING **: Can't find installed
> BookFactories
>
> (evolution-2.4:16972): libebook-WARNING **: Can't find installed
> BookFactories
> [poc shire ~]$
> </log>
>
> So there are two things here:
>
> 1) Starting Evo doesn't start e-d-s.
> 2) e-d-s when started manually doesn't appear to communicate with Evo.
>
> I've checked bonobo-activation-config.xml and it's correct (i.e. it
> hasn't changed in several months).
>
> However on my other machine, on an apparently identical config of Evo,
> everything works correctly.
>
> poc
>
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:52 +0530, Sushma Rai wrote: 
> > Looks like address book component is not getting loaded.
> >
> > Can you start evolution-data-server and evolution form
> > console and see if there are any error messages?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sushma.
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 09:17 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > [Evo 2.4.2 and 2.5.1]
> > >
> > > I have 2 address books, one local (Personal) and one remote (LDAP). The
> > > LDAP one is the default.
> > >
> > > They used to work.
> > >
> > > In the Mail window, auto-completion is apparently turned off (i.e. it
> > > doesn't auto-complete, even for addresses I use all the time). The
> > > autocompletion options under Preferences are correct. All optional
> > > Plugins are enabled except Groupwise and Exchange stuff, which I have no
> > > need for.
> > >
> > > If I go to Preferences under Contacts, I see both address books on the
> > > right-hand pane, with check marks, but the left-hand pane has two empty
> > > boxes and no text. This doesn't look right. Furthermore, in the Contacts
> > > window, I can no longer do searches. The search bar is greyed out. 
> > >
> > > I suspect something in my XML files is borked, but it's wierd as I have
> > > the exact same problem on two machines and I don't copy .evolution data
> > > from one to the other.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > poc
> > >
> > > PS As an aside: does anyone else think that there should be only one
> > > Preferences window for all Evo's options, rather than a different one
> > > for each mode? I find this user-hostile.
> > >
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