RE: [Evolution] Debugging Connector problem

["Norman P. B. Joseph" <joseph ctc com>]

Thanks for the hint.  I ran the evolution-exchange-storage process
separately as you suggested and ... it just started working.  I don't
know what would be different, apart from running it with the E2K_DEBUG
environment variable set.  I'll have to poke around further, but thanks
for the start.

-norm



On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 13:12 -0700, Sackinger, Philip A wrote:
> Sounds possibly similar to my NTLM OpenLDAP woes on Fedora Core 3.
>
> To verify it is so, steps like this can expose the details of your
> problem more to light,
>
> $ evolution-2.0 --force-shutdown
> $ locate evolution-exchange-storage
> (it will be in some libexec area)
> (so start up this backend process by hand before re-starting
> evolution)
> $ E2K_DEBUG=4 /usr/libexec/evolution/2.0/evolution-exchange-storage
> $ evolution-2.0
> (watch the output logs when it dies)
>
> The solution to the problem seems to be to coerce that backend process
> of
> evolution-exchange-storage
> into using specially modified OpenLDAP libraries with the NTLM patch.
> Otherwise, it dies because it cannot complete the needed
> authentication.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: evolution-admin lists ximian com on behalf of Norman P. B.
> Joseph
> Sent: Fri 3/4/2005 12:32 PM
> To: evolution ximian com
> Subject: [Evolution] Debugging Connector problem
>
> For reasons as yet unknown the Evolution connector for Exchange on my
> host suddenly refuses to work (RHEL 4, Evolution 2.0.2).  Every time I
> start up and try to access my Exchange account it tells me:
>
>         The Application "evolution-exchange-storage" has quit
>         unexpectedly.
>        
>         You can inform the developers of what happened to help them
> fix
>         it.  Or you can restart the application right now.
>
> and then (twice):
>
>         Error while Scanning folders in "Exchange server <my exchange
>         server host>".
>        
>         Lost connection to Evolution Exchange backend process.
>
> Any clues on how to proceed debugging from here are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -norm
>
>
>
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> Norman P. B. Joseph <joseph ctc com>
> Concurrent Technologies Corporation
>
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