GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 445201
subscribe to other user's calendar gives me "generic error"
Last modified: 2008-06-07 05:11:49 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I click on the menu "File", "subscribe to other user's calendar", I can pick a user from the global address list, and when I press ok I always get "generic error". Other users with Outlook can open the shared calendars no problem. If I use Outlook with my credentials then I can also open the shared calendars in question. My own calendar on the same Exchange server works fine. Steps to reproduce: 1. click "File", "subscribe to other user's calendar" 2. specify a valid user 3. click ok Actual results: Evolution reports "generic error" with an OK button. (It's not ok with me) Expected results: Open the specified user's calendar for viewing Does this happen every time? yes Other information: Tried running on Mandriva 2007.0 and 2007.1, KDE desktop Here is the output from E2K_DEBUG=5 evolution >& evo2.log CalDAV Eplugin starting up ... ** (evolution:12906): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:12906): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution (evolution:12906): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loading categories from "/home/scott/.evolution/categories.xml" (evolution:12906): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loaded 29 categories (evolution:12906): libecal-WARNING **: e-cal.c:318: Unexpected response (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (evolution:12906): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
I'm suffering from the same problem. This is with 2.12.1, but the problem has existed for at least a year. I'm willing to debug it further if someone can provide me with some instructions.
Update your /etc/hosts file with your domain name: Syntax: IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname This will prevent the Generic error dialog from popping out.
*** Bug 372630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this problem also affects me. but even the trick with the /etc/hosts file dind't fix it. i entered the hostname from my machine in hosts and also the hostname of the exchange server. but that didn't fix it. sometimes the appears the "generic error" and sometimes there apperas the "folder does not exist" error. i tried this with latest evolution 2.21.92.
I can confirm, that modifiing /etc/hosts (only localhost and hostname was there for my ip) to include the whole fqdn (host.domain) solved the problem. I'm running 2.12.1 version from Ubuntu 7.10.
Closing as per comment #5 and comment #4 is handled in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432885#c15