Re: evolution address book conduit issues

[Fernando Paredes <hexmachine yahoo com>]

I too am having the same problem. And I've seen it
before. If I delete the offending address and try
again it usually finishes quite cleanly...

But this time is different..I've already deleted about
10-15 entries and the thing keeps finding one it
doesn't like. I can't see any pattern to the entries
that make it hang. It's very frustrating because the
conduit gives absolutely NO information on what is
happening.

I've had so many problems with Evolution that I'm
really starting to consider not using it anymore. It's
terrible! It's like a black box...too complex (too
many things can go wrong and you never know where the
error is). And things go wrong all too often. 
I hope I don't hurt anyone's feeling with this, but
that's how it is. Evolution is becoming into something
that prevents me from doing my normal work instead of
helping me.

If anyone can offer ANY help on how to fix this or at
least where to look to find out what's wrong I would
very much appreciate it.

Thanks!!

--- Charlie Wood <gnome urchaidh com> wrote:
> I'm running a RedHat 9.0 (sorry, not my choice) box
> with Ximian
> Evolution and Gnome-pilot versions as below.
> 
> Configured for USB/9600  I can perform a full backup
> quite happily (if
> slowly) but if I try to use the Evolution address
> book
> conduit  to copy
> addresses from the Palm (Zire) the conduit appears
> to
> hang - always on
> the same address.
> 
> The Zire reports a dropped connection, the conduit
> hangs, the daemon
> hangs and the applet usually crashes. I have run the
> daemon from a shell
> and get no useful debug, the last message being:
> 
> eaddrconduit-Message: add_record: adding ['Doe'
> 'John'
> ''] to desktop
> 
> When I remove the first hanging address it finds
> another to hang on, it
> does not appear to be related to the content of the
> hanging address nor
> the amount of data transferred.
> 
> Can anyone offer me any suggestions?
> 
> 53 brora% rpmquery -a | grep pilot
> gnome-pilot-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> pilot-link095-compat-0.9.5-22
> gnome-pilot-applet-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> pilot-link-devel-0.11.5-4
> gnome-pilot-devel-2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1
> pilot-link-0.11.5-4
> evolution-pilot-1.4.4-0.ximian.6.1
> 
> 54 brora% evolution --version
> Gnome evolution 1.4.4
> 
> 55 brora% gpilotd-control-applet --version
> Gnome gpilotd-control-applet 2.0.10
> 
> 56 brora% /usr/libexec/gpilotd --version
> gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.10 starting...
> gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version
> 0.11.5
> gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA]
> [Network]
> Gnome gnome-pilot 2.0.10
> 
> 57 brora% /usr/libexec/gpilot-applet --version
> Gnome Pilot-Applet 0
> 
> 58 brora% pilot-file --version
>    .--------------------------------------------.
>    | (c) Copyright 1996-2001, pilot-link team   |
>    |    Join the pilot-unix list to contribute. |
>    `--------------------------------------------'
>    This is pilot-file from pilot-link version 0.11.5
>    Build date: Jan 24 2003 14:47:43
>  
>    pilot-link 0.11.5 is covered under the GPL/LGPL
>    See the file COPYING for more details.
>  
>    Please use -h for more detailed options.
> 
> -- 
> Charlie Wood
> 
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