Re: [Evolution] LDAP write not working in 3.10 on opensuse 13.1 (read works, no access problems)

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

Please don't reply only to my personal address - others on the list need
to see your answers in order to be able to help you.

On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 14:27 +0100, Johannes Winterhalter wrote:
> Am 05.01.2014 13:20, schrieb Pete Biggs:
> > version 12.3 with evo 3.6,  and 13.1 with evolution 3.10. I have two
> > linux machines - the first one was a fresh install, the second one
> > upgrade - on both machines no ldap write with evo 3.10
> >
> > What sort of LDAP server are you using?
> >
> > However, I'm no expert on LDAP, but I suspect the answer is in the logs
> > on the server - that will tell you why the writes aren't being accepted.
> > Basically you will need to make sure that the DN you authenticate with
> > has the requisite permissions to alter the tables on the server.
> It is openldap 2.4 from OpenSuse. With jxplorer using the same 
> credentials I can fully edit my ldap directory, with Evolution 3.6 too. 
> It is not working with 3.10, the entry fields are greyed out. So I am 
> sure that that is a configuration problem with evolution 3.10, maybe 
> ldap editing is totally disabled. Editing Google Contacts works with 3.10.

The first thing is to start Evolution from the command line to see if
any errors are shown.  You should also, as I said, look in the server
logs to see if any problems are shown there.  The fact that the entry
fields are greyed out probably means that it doesn't have write
permission, not that it doesn't work at all.

There are also debug variables you can set that will monitor the LDAP
traffic ... BUT the page where they used to be documented:

http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml

linked from

https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/problems-debug-how-to.html.en

Now just redirects to the Gnome wiki rather than going anywhere
sensible.  So, unfortunately I can't tell you what the correct variables
to use are.

P.