GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 679245
Local address book not created
Last modified: 2012-08-29 08:35:25 UTC
Moving this from a downstream bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836814 Description of problem: The Evolution address book is unable to perform basic functions (adding contacts, adding/removing other address books) with local address books. In most cases, address book operations fail with a message to the effect that the address book "cannot be opened. Please check the path <path in ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook> exists" etc. The file mentioned does not exist, not is it created by evolution at shutdown. Example 1: Adding a new contact. 1. Create a new user account to ensure a clean start. 2. Start up Evolution. Follow the wizard with dummy e-mail account settings. 3. Go to the Address Book view. 4. Click to add a new Contact in the Personal address book. This just fails silently. Example 2: Adding a new address book. 1. Add a new address book: give it a name, click to create it. 2. Click on the new address book. Note the red banner error message. (Screenshot attached.) 3. Attempt to delete this unusable address book by right-clicking on it and selecting delete. This fails with a nondescript "unable to comply" message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Always.
I can reproduce it too with fresh new account.
Created attachment 217810 [details] [review] eds patch for evolution-data-server; This fixes it. It is only for 3.4, as master had this fixed ~ two weeks ago. Workaround is to create the folder for evolution-data-server, which can be done with a command like this: $ mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/xxx The actual path depends on the error message shown in evolution.
Created commit 098fe53 in eds master (3.4.4+)
(In reply to comment #3) > ... in eds master ... err, ... in eds gnome-3-4 ..., it is.
*** Bug 681873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***