Re: [Evolution] Evolution Contacts recurring error

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sat, 2020-05-09 at 13:35 +0200, John Balkunas via evolution-list
wrote:
> flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Evolution
> flatpak run org.gnome.Evolution
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install evolution-ews
>
> The version is reported as: 3.36.2 (by Flathub.org)

        Hi,
when you run the Flatpak version, you do not need Evolution installed
in the host system. Those two work independently. Similarly for
evolution-ews, it's part of the Flathub Flatpak already.

> My Gnome Online Accounts is configured for Microsoft Exchange with
> Mail, Calendar and Contracts all checked/green; so I'd guess that's
> good.

Right, it should be fine.

The errors you see, it looks like some error on the
evolution-source-registry side, maybe missing files. That the
evolution-addressbook-factory cannot find "system-address-book" is
suspicious, because it's the default address book, created by
evolution-data-server on demand, supposed to be always there. I do run
the same Flathub Flatpak version on a Fedora 32 box and it doesn't
suffer of these issues.

Close Evolution. Then check what evolution-related processes are
running:

   $ ps ax | grep evolution

Kill all which are from /app/ path. Then run Evolution from a command
line like this:

   $ ESR_DEBUG=1 flatpak run org.gnome.Evolution

which will start with evolution-source-registry debugging on. Maybe
it'll show something useful. You can enable EWS debugging with
EWS_DEBUG=1. Note that you might restart those /app/ processes too, to
get the debugging on. (The background processes are not closed when the
Evolution is closed.)

        Bye,
        Milan