Re: evolution address book conduit issues

[lsiden <lsiden-public comcast net>]

I agree.  I am also becoming very frustrated with Evolution.  It
suddenly breaks when I update libraries for other applications.  It
seems to be incredibly fragile.  Gentoo (my distro) was still
distributing 2.0.9 of both gnome-pilot and g-p-conduits.  At first, I
couldn't get anything to work.  Now, I updated glib to 2.2.2, g-p and
g-p-conduits to 2.0.10, disabled EAddress, and synced on my serial
cradle.  For several more attempts it didn't work, but then when I tried
it on my serial cradle, it worked.  Then I went back to the USB cradle,
tried again, and it crashed again when synching addresses.  

The problem with this is I never know when it will work and when it
won't and it doesn't generate a log file that might help me.  If there
is no prospect of resolving this soon I may have no choice but to go
back to jpilot.  I don't like that GUI much, but hey, at least it worked
for me last time I tried it!  Or better yet, forget about both and just
back my Visor up every night w/ pilot-link (which does work).

-Larry Siden

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:11, Fernando Paredes wrote:
> 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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