Re: [Evolution] "Backend is busy" messages, all the time

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:57:50AM +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>        Its because eds can handle only one call at a time from its
> clients. If any concurrent call is made, the warning is displayed. This
> has been partly fixed in evolution-2.26. It will be completely fixed
> with the dbus port for EDS.
So where is the other call coming from?  I'm getting this on one
desktop system that I run only, another very similar system I don't
see this error when I do the same things with Evolution.  In both
cases this is a single user system with lots of memory and processor
power to spare doing nothing much but running Evolution.

> See - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347287 .
>
> - Chenthill.
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 14:42 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > Whenever I run evolution (well, when I run it from a terminal) I see
> > lots of messages like the following:-
> >
> >     (evolution:20428): calendar-gui-WARNING **: gnome-cal.c:910: Could not create the query: Backend is 
> > busy 
> >
> >     (evolution:20428): calendar-gui-WARNING **: e-cal-model.c:1658: Unable to get query
> >
> > I've been ignoring these but I've just realised it might explain my
> > inability to get dates in the Calendar in list-view to show in the
> > correct (European DD/MM/YYYY) format.
> >
> > So, why am I getting these "Backend is busy" warnings, it doesn't
> > happen just sometimes, it happens every time I go to a Calendar view.
> >
> > The evolution data server is running:-
> >
> >     chris$ ps -ef | grep evo
> >     chris     7150     1  0 Mar04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.24 
> > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_CalFactory:1.2 --oaf-ior-fd=18
> >     chris    19895 19864  0 14:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/2.24/evolution-alarm-notify 
> > --sm-config-prefix /evolution-alarm-notify-4ZmiNy/ --sm-client-id 11c0a80104000123524176800000070160019 
> > --screen 0
> >     chris    20078     1  0 14:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.24 
> > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_CalFactory:1.2 --oaf-ior-fd=18
> >     chris    20428 19949  0 14:33 pts/1    00:00:01 evolution
> >
> > ... in fact there are two of them, is that the problem maybe?  I've
> > just killed the old (Mar04) one and I'm seeing exactly the same errors.

-- 
Chris Green