Re: [Evolution] Unable to open address book
On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 18:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I upgraded from 3.10.4 to 3.12.1 and then downgraded back to 3.10.4, because 3.12.1 is to buggy for my taste. Hi, makes sense, going forth and back doesn't work, internal format of addressbook summaries changed for 3.12.x. The address book is in ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/ Close evolution, make sure evolution-addressbook-factory is also closed, and then restore that folder's content. a link to ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book didn't work, Weird, the path is clearly wrong. Evolution should report the previous path. deleting ~/.cache/evolution didn't help. Makes sense, there are stored only remote data, not local (On This Computer books are stored 'on this computer', aka they are local). Bye, Milan ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Unable to open address book
Hi, I upgraded from 3.10.4 to 3.12.1 and then downgraded back to 3.10.4, because 3.12.1 is to buggy for my taste. Unable to open address book This address book cannot be opened. Please check that the path /home/rocketmouse/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book exists and that permissions are set to access it. Detailed error message: Unable to connect to 'Personal': Error introspecting unknown summary field 'file_as_localized' The address book is in ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/ a link to ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book didn't work, deleting ~/.cache/evolution didn't help. How can I get back the address book? I have a complete backup of my Arch Linux, including home. Is there something I could restore from a backup to solve the issue? Happy Easter! Ralf ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Unable to open address book
Dear List, I started using Linux Mint 14 after being a Fedora user for many years. I backed up my data and settings using the Backup Menu item (File Backup Evolution Data...) on my Fedora 18 laptop and used the backup file whilst setting up Evolution on my Desktop where I installed Linux Mint 14. When switching to the Contacts view I get an error message with the following details: Unable to open address book This address book cannot be opened. Please check that the path /home/gavin/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book exists and that permissions are set to access it. Detailed error message: Cannot open book: db error 0x8703 (DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery) When restoring from the Evolution backup it created: $ ls -l ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system total 10352 -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin69632 Apr 15 10:46 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin 5549 Dec 15 2011 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 gavin gavin29696 Apr 15 10:46 contacts.db -rw-r- 1 gavin gavin 10485760 Apr 29 23:23 log.01 drwx-- 2 gavin gavin 4096 Feb 11 21:42 photos but Evolution seems to want ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book. So I shutdown Evolution, killed the address book background process and copied ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system to ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system-address-book and restarted my system. Unfortunately that did not solve the problem. In Linux Mint 14 I am running Evolution 3.6.2. Anyone have suggestions as to what to try next so I can fix this problem? All the best, Gavin -- Gavin Simpson, PhD [t] +1 306 337 8863 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology[f] +1 306 337 2410 Institute of Environmental Change Society [e] gavin.simp...@uregina.ca 523 Research and Innovation Centre [tw] @ucfagls University of Regina Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Unable to open address book on half of local address books.
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 19:18 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote: Sometime after I upgraded from Evo 2.32 to Evo 3.2.2, I noticed that there are some local address books that I could no longer view. Specifically, when clicking on them, it doesn't show any contacts, but it shows the following error message in red: Unable to open address book This address book cannot be opened. This either means that an incorrect URI was entered, or the server is unreachable. Detailed error message: Invalid source --- And if I start evolution from a console, I see this in the console when the above error appears: --- (evolution:7449): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_client_new: Cannot get book from factory: Invalid source --- There are 12 local address books: 6 where this happens, and another 6 that work fine. Hi, I recall one issue with address book definitions not being migrated properly. It should be fixed in current sources, but I do not have exact change handy. Try this command: $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources | grep file: which should usually return no lines, but for you, I believe, it'll return 6 hits, while using grep local: will return about 7 hits for you (one is a 'base_uri' in the 'group' element). All the books should be identified by their local:UID 'uri', or the best they should not have any 'uri' set, but only 'relative_uri', which is basically the same as their 'uid'. If you grep for 1220503344.8082.1@redux, which is the first folder in your addressbooks directory, then you may ideally get something like this around that value (I use 'XXX' instead of '1220503344.8082.1@redux' for better readability). group uid=YYY name=On This Computer base_uri=local: readonly=no ... source uid=XXX name=newlocal relative_uri=XXX properties.../properties /source ... /group In case the source will contain also 'uri' then it looks like this uri=local:XXX, note of no double forward slashes after 'local:', but as I said above, the On This Computer sources doesn't need uri key. I hope I didn't get too much into detail, as for you it should be just about getting rid of file:// and replace it with local:, and bonus points if you get rid of uri, inside sources of On This Computer group (other groups can have the 'uri' attribute mandatory). To edit the key use gconf-editor, because it allows you to edit the key by group, not as a whole list of groups. Of course, make a copy of the original value first, thus you'll have a chance to return to something, if anything goes wrong. Any change in the key requires restart of evolution and e-addressbook-factory process (it's run on demand, thus killing it before making changes is sufficient). Hope that helps, Milan ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Unable to open address book on half of local address books.
$ gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/addressbook/sources | grep file: which should usually return no lines, but for you, I believe, it'll return 6 hits It did indeed! as for you it should be just about getting rid of file:// and replace it with local:, and bonus points if you get rid of uri, inside sources of On This Computer group (other groups can have the 'uri' attribute mandatory). To edit the key use gconf-editor, because it allows you to edit the key by group, not as a whole list of groups. Of course, make a copy of the original value first, thus you'll have a chance to return to something, if anything goes wrong. Perfect! Yes, it works great now! Woohoo! So summarise the solution steps in case anyone experiences the same later on: run gconf-editor , navigate to apps/evolution/addressbook , double-click on sources , expand the window that appears, click on the one with name=On This Computer, click edit, copy the edit list value text, paste it into 2 text editor windows (one to edit, one to keep as a backup), in the edit version go and delete the uri=file://x parts, paste it back into the edit list value box, click OK, click OK again, close the gconf-editor, File - Quit out of evolution, wait for the window to close, then in a terminal do an evolution --force-shutdown, wait 20 seconds, do a ps auxwf | grep e-addressbook-factory to confirm the process is no longer running, then restart evolution, and check all the local address books open, and they should all work. Hope that helps It most definitely helps! Thank you very much indeed. :-) -- All the best, Nick. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Unable to open address book on half of local address books.
Hi all, Sometime after I upgraded from Evo 2.32 to Evo 3.2.2, I noticed that there are some local address books that I could no longer view. Specifically, when clicking on them, it doesn't show any contacts, but it shows the following error message in red: Unable to open address book This address book cannot be opened. This either means that an incorrect URI was entered, or the server is unreachable. Detailed error message: Invalid source --- And if I start evolution from a console, I see this in the console when the above error appears: --- (evolution:7449): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_client_new: Cannot get book from factory: Invalid source --- There are 12 local address books: 6 where this happens, and another 6 that work fine. And in terms of what's on the file system, the 12 directories for the 12 local address books all look reasonably similar: $ ls -Ral ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/ /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/: total 56 drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 . drwx-- 8 nickj nickj 4096 2012-03-16 12:17 .. drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1220503344.8082.1@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-13 13:20 1220589553.14241.3@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1220589571.14241.4@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1220589651.14241.6@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1220589678.14241.7@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-01-14 16:18 1220589710.14241.8@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1220589758.14241.9@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-01-14 16:18 1220589766.14241.10@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-01-14 16:18 1267677591.2477.7@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1268345403.3506.3@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 1301312958.6975.3@redux drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-01-30 21:01 system /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220503344.8082.1@redux: total 232 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 311296 2011-06-09 11:32 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 5838 2011-06-09 11:32 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 26624 2012-02-23 16:12 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589553.14241.3@redux: total 80 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-13 13:20 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 45056 2012-02-13 13:20 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 4306 2011-12-13 10:36 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 22528 2012-02-13 13:20 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589571.14241.4@redux: total 168 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 98304 2011-03-14 18:48 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 15042 2011-03-14 18:48 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 45056 2012-02-23 16:12 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589651.14241.6@redux: total 80 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 45056 2010-03-04 15:42 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 4647 2010-03-04 15:42 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 22528 2012-02-23 16:12 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589678.14241.7@redux: total 88 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 81920 2010-08-25 12:39 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 3118 2010-08-25 12:39 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 16384 2012-02-23 16:12 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589710.14241.8@redux: total 40 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-01-14 16:18 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 12288 2008-09-06 17:44 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 1148 2008-09-06 17:45 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 14336 2012-01-14 16:18 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589758.14241.9@redux: total 52 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-02-23 16:12 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj 4096 2011-06-15 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 24576 2009-11-06 16:32 addressbook.db -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 972 2009-11-06 16:32 addressbook.db.summary -rw-r--r-- 1 nickj nickj 14336 2012-02-23 16:12 contacts.db /home/nickj/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/1220589766.14241.10@redux: total 84 drwx-- 2 nickj nickj 4096 2012-01-14 16:18 . drwx-- 14 nickj nickj
