GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 236011
LDAP access seem to be a bit unstable
Last modified: 2012-01-30 13:59:01 UTC
{ Unfortunately I am unable to describe the very nature of the problem, please treat it as a suggestion to review the LDAP access behaviour } While I was trying to access some LDAP service (in fact, the one which I am just starting to run) it repeatably happened to me that evolution reported errors like 'can not access this address book' or did not asked for the password although it should or asked for the password but when I entered it claimed it was wrong (and I am 100% sure I used the correct password, I even tried it succesfully with other LDAP client against the same server at the same time). In all those cases slapd did not reported any access from the client (and I run it with debug logging enabled). It can matter that I was restarting the LDAP server (and I restarted evolution after each slapd restart), I was reconfiguring the evolution using different access method, I was changing access rules of LDAP server etc.
Can you upgrade evolution and try this? Also try starting evolution-data-server in a seperate console, so that we can see if there are any log related messages.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks! Also, this version of Evolution is obsolete, as sushma already said.
I have not been using evolution for about 3 years, so it is hard to comment on the issue. Nevertheless, I would recommend making the simple test before closing the bug (hmm, adding it to some release test suite if there is any): - configure evolution to access some ldap server, - make some search, - restart this server, - make next search
Devashish, Poornima, Can we test this scenario?
removing old target milestone. sush: CC them, otherwise you wont get an answer.
I'm afraid I cannot add anything very precise to this bug, except that also for me, LDAP on Evolution just "doesn't work". I somehow get the feeling that the LDAP implementation in Evolution is simply broken. Parameters easily accepted by Thunderbird wont give any search results in Evolution, neither an error message, just nothing.
srag, see comment #3 please Alexander, I would like to look at it, but I can connect to my ldap server, the only thing is to search for some term, it doesn't show "all" contacts. But I see above you search for contacts already.
I'm now successfully searching the University LDAP server using evolution. It is sometimes unstable, especially when using LDAP for address autocompletion, but in general it works.
Hi, thanks for quick answer. In which way is it unstable?
Evolution doesn't handle server restarts that well - the first operation after the server restarts will fail. So: - search (works) - restart ldap server - search (fails) - search (works) or - search (works) - restart ldap server - edit contact and save (fails) - search (works)
The scope of this bug report is extremely vague and basically unfixable (and adding new comments with different new problems is another sign for that) so I am closing this ticket. If you have specific problems with Evolution 3.2 or 3.0 and LDAP access, please file a separate new bug report. Thanks!