Sorry to interrupt the GNOME 2 festivities, but with no solution to this on the Evolution lists, I didn't know where to turn.
I've been building evolution, gtkhtml, gal and bonobo-conf on a daily basis (plus soup, glibwww2 and gnome-spell periodically) from cvs HEAD for some time. On or about 19 December 2001 was the last time I was able to access my addressbook. My system is largely Debian sid, with the exception of *most* of the Evolution dependencies, which are generally everything available from Ximian stable. From time to time I get impatient with the frequency of the Ximian packages and upgrade to the Debian unstable versions. There have been hints of other people with similar problems running sid, and Dan Winship once recommended downgrading libgtk1.2 to 1.2.9 to avoid a bug in .10 that would never be fixed (but that may not be related). I built successfully for months with the sleepycat libdb3 3.1.17 installed from scratch, and in the last few days using the Ximian evo-db3 package. Present symptoms: clicking on Contacts in the Folders view gives me an alert that says Unable to open addressbook: We were unable to open this addressbook. Please check that the path exists [it does] and that you have permission to access it [I do -- removing it and having it re-created on startup doesn't change this situation, nor do copying over an older version of addressbook.db or removing ~/evolution and starting from scratch]. Double-clicking in the addressbook window to create a new contact causes `The Evolution component that handles folders of type "contacts"' to unexpectedly quit. Unsent messages that are open for editing lose their "To:" field. Upon exit I get the following in a gnome terminal: evolution-shell-WARNING **: Error changing interactive status of component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_ShellComponent to FALSE -- IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Does anyone notice anything or have any suggestions? Something obvious maybe? Thanks, Mike ----------- dpkg -l | grep ximian ii aspell 0.33.7.1-ximian.3 ii aspell-en-ca 0.33.7.1-ximian.3 ii bonobo 1.0.19-ximian.1 ii evo-db3 3.1.17-ximian.1 ii g-wrap 1.1.10-ximian.1 ii galeon 1.0.3-1.ximian.3 ii gconf 1.0.8-1.ximian.1 ii gdk-imlib-dev 1.9.10-ximian.2 ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.10-ximian.2 ii gimp1.2 1.2.2-ximian.2 ii gimp1.2-nonfree 1.2.2-ximian.2 ii gimp1.2-perl 1.2.2-ximian.2 ii glade-gnome 0.6.2-ximian.2 ii gmc 4.5.54-ximian.6 ii gnome-audio 1.4.0-ximian.1 ii gnome-bin 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii gnome-control-cente 1.4.0.2-ximian.1 ii gnome-core 1.4.0.4-ximian.11 ii gnome-help 1.4.0.4-ximian.11 ii gnome-help-data 1.4.0.4-ximian.11 ii gnome-libs-data 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii gnome-media 1.2.3-ximian.1 ii gnome-mime-data 1.0.1-ximian.3 ii gnome-panel 1.4.0.4-ximian.11 ii gnome-panel-data 1.4.0.4-ximian.11 ii gnome-spell 0.4-ximian.2 ii gnome-terminal 1.4.0.4-ximian.11 ii gnome-utils 1.4.0-ximian.8 ii gnucash 1.6.5-ximian.6 ii gnumeric 1.0.4-0.ximian.2 ii gtk-engines-pixmap 0.12-ximian.1 ii gtk-engines-thinice 1.0.4-ximian.1 ii gtk-themes 0.1-ximian.2 ii gtkhtml 1.0.1-ximian.1 ii guile-common 1.4-ximian.11 ii guile1.4 1.4-ximian.11 ii guile1.4-slib 1.4-ximian.11 ii guppi 0.40.3-ximian.2 ii imlib-base 1.9.10-ximian.2 ii imlib-dev 1.9.10-ximian.2 ii imlib-progs 1.9.10-ximian.2 ii imlib1 1.9.10-ximian.2 ii libart-dev 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libart2 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libaspell-dev 0.33.7.1-ximian.3 ii libaspell10 0.33.7.1-ximian.3 ii libbonobo-dev 1.0.19-ximian.1 ii libbonobo2 1.0.19-ximian.1 ii libcapplet-dev 1.4.0.2-ximian.1 ii libcapplet0 1.4.0.2-ximian.1 ii libefs-dev 1.0.19-ximian.1 ii libefs1 1.0.19-ximian.1 ii libgal14 0.14-ximian.2 ii libgal19 0.19-ximian.1 ii libgconf-dev 1.0.8-1.ximian.1 ii libgconf11 1.0.8-1.ximian.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf-dev 0.16.0-ximian.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf-gnome 0.16.0-ximian.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf-gnome 0.16.0-ximian.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf-perl 0.7008-ximian.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2 0.16.0-ximian.1 ii libghttp-dev 1.0.9-ximian.5 ii libghttp1 1.0.9-ximian.5 ii libgimp1.2 1.2.2-ximian.2 ii libglade-gnome0 0.16-ximian.1 ii libglade-gnome0-dev 0.16-ximian.1 ii libglade0 0.16-ximian.1 ii libglade0-dev 0.16-ximian.1 ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-ximian.2 ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.10-ximian.2 ii libgnome-dev 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgnome-perl 0.7008-ximian.1 ii libgnome-pilot-dev 0.1.64-ximian.1 ii libgnome-pilot1 0.1.64-ximian.1 ii libgnome-vfs-dev 1.0.4-ximian.4 ii libgnome-vfs0 1.0.4-ximian.4 ii libgnome32 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgnomeprint-bin 0.35-1.ximian.1 ii libgnomeprint-data 0.35-1.ximian.1 ii libgnomeprint-dev 0.35-1.ximian.1 ii libgnomeprint15 0.35-1.ximian.1 ii libgnomesupport0 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgnomeui32 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgnorba-dev 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgnorba27 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgnorbagtk0 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgtk-imlib-perl 0.7008-ximian.1 ii libgtk-perl 0.7008-ximian.1 ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-ximian.21 ii libgtk1.2-dev 1.2.10-ximian.21 ii libgtkhtml20 1.0.1-ximian.1 ii libgtkxmhtml-dev 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgtkxmhtml1 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libgtop1 1.0.12-ximian.3 ii libguile-dev 1.4-ximian.11 ii libguile9 1.4-ximian.11 ii libgwrapguile-dev 1.1.10-ximian.1 ii libgwrapguile0 1.1.10-ximian.1 ii libnspr-dev 0.9.8-1.ximian.3 ii libnspr4 0.9.8-1.ximian.3 ii libnss-dev 0.9.8-1.ximian.3 ii libnss3 0.9.8-1.ximian.3 ii liboaf-dev 0.6.8-1.ximian.1 ii liboaf0 0.6.8-1.ximian.1 ii libogg0 1.0rc3-ximian.3 ii libole2-0 0.2.4-ximian.1 ii libole2-dev 0.2.4-ximian.1 ii liborbit-dev 0.5.13-ximian.1 ii liborbit0 0.5.13-ximian.1 ii libpisock-dev 0.9.5-ximian.1 ii libpisock4 0.9.5-ximian.1 ii libpspell-dev 0.12.2-ximian.5 ii libpspell4 0.12.2-ximian.5 ii librep-dev 0.13.4-ximian.6 ii librep9 0.13.4-ximian.6 ii libscrollkeeper-dev 0.2-ximian.3 ii libscrollkeeper0 0.2-ximian.3 ii libunicode-dev 0.4.gnome-ximian.1 ii libunicode0 0.4.gnome-ximian.1 ii libvorbis0 1.0rc3-ximian.2 ii libxml-dev 1.8.17-1.ximian.1 ii libxml1 1.8.17-1.ximian.1 ii libzvt-dev 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii libzvt2 1.4.1.4-1.ximian.2 ii mc 4.5.54-ximian.6 ii mc-common 4.5.54-ximian.6 ii mcserv 4.5.54-ximian.6 ii mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1.ximian.3 ii oaf 0.6.8-1.ximian.1 ii orbit 0.5.13-ximian.1 ii scrollkeeper 0.2-ximian.3 ii slib 2d1-ximian.6 ii ximian-menus 1.4.1-1.ximian.2 ii ximian-utils 0.2-ximian.1 plus the non-Ximian deps ii libaudiofile-dev 0.2.3-4 ii libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 ii libc6 2.2.5-3 ii libc6-dev 2.2.5-3 ii libdb2 2.7.7.0-3.1* ii libdb3 3.2.9-14* ii libdb3-dev 3.2.9-14 ii libesd0 0.2.23-2 ii libesd0-dev 0.2.23-2 ii libpopt-dev 1.6.2-7 ii libpopt0 1.6.2-7 ii libwrap0 7.6-9 ii libwrap0-dev 7.6-9 ii xlib6g 4.1.0-14 ii xlib6g-dev 4.1.0-14 ii zlib1g 1.1.3-19.1 ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.3-19.1 * which -dev? ldd says libdb3-dev, evolution package depends on libdb2 (I've tried both)
