Re: [Evolution] Address book funcionality turned off

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

How do I verify it? I've never consciously set it anywhere, and it
doesn't exist as an environment variable in my shell. It's also not set
in any of the config files or Makefiles I've used to compile Evo.

BTW I'm using KDE (on both machines), if it matters.

poc

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 14:43 +0530, Sushma Rai wrote:
> 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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