address book missing on first start

[David Mills]

When evolution is started for the first time by a new user, it complaines about a missing address book file. After that, evolution starts up normally, and the error isn't shown on next startup.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu and evolution do you use? What is the error message exactly? Can you make sure the user has no ~/.evolution directory?

[David Mills (d-mills)]

OK, ubuntu is Dapper Flight 6, installed using the espresso installer, I think that makes evolution 2.6.0.

During install, I'd created a new user, and hadn't recovered my old home (didn't want important stuff on an alpha (if stable) distro (yes, I like lisp)).

I'll go out on a limb and say that I don't think I had a .evolution present, (I'll check up in /etc/skell tonight).

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

/etc/skel should contain nothing. If it was really a new user with no changes in ~ that can't be the problem. Strange - when I tested with a new user, the normal "configure your settings" dialog showed up and it worked nicely.

It'd probably help if you'd make a screenshot of that dialog.

[David Mills (d-mills)]

OK, I've checked, and effectivly, /etc/skel is empty.

For information: the 'configure you're settings' dialog did show up, and I promptly passed it by (local mail, sendmail outbound....) since I wanted to have a look at evo without using it for my servers, and that's where the message struck

[David Mills (d-mills)]

OK, a screenshot of the error dialog is at http://mills.free.fr/screenshot.png

And, something worthy of note: the error only interviened when I tried to view the contacts section

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you provide informations about what the dialog ask for when you get the message?

[David Mills (d-mills)]

It doesn't ask for anything, the dialog comes up, and once you've clicked on OK you never see or hear of it again, and everything works normally.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does the same on a dapper beta candidate installation, I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339146

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Upstream discusses a fix atm.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the bug:

 evolution-data-server (1.11.1-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     Bug fixes:
     - #383686: Use g_mkdir_with_parents
     - #322105: Fix for non-junk messages to learn ham.
     - #418971: E-D-S requires GLib 2.10 now; remove dead backward-compatibility
                code for GLib < 2.8
     - #360240: Remove unused variable.
     - #360619: Fix "incompatible pointer type" warnings
     - #405495: Don't mix declarations and code
     - #360807: Fix a couple of memory leaks
     - #400970: Remove marshallers that are in GLib already
     - #413173: Fix up the documentation
     - #420933: Copy the recurrence ID string so it doesn't disappear on us.
     - #426893: Added support from address fields in LDAP addressbook.
     - #422883: Build fix for SUN LDAP
     - #424837: Allow contact creation to fail, and propagate the error back
     - #422932: Make EContact extendable
     - #428183: BDBB backend cleanups
     - #425512: Fix issue with creating a new addressbook (Ubuntu: #38016)
     - #426564: Misc cleanups
     - #385078: Don't go via GObject properties when calling e_contact_get
     - #425464: e-vcard optimizations
     - #422652: Return decent error codes, and convert errors to human readable
               strings for the console.
     - #421445: Fix build logic for e-name-western-tables.h
     - #421683: Fix broken dispose/finalise in e-book-backend-file.c
     - #359806: Non-ascii characters generate trash in address lists
               (Ubuntu: #78846)
     - #373117: Use the new ESource color API.
     - #425535: Dont submit path of EDS for segv_handler.
     - #423382: Convert messages from gnupg to UTF-8
     - #415891: Introduce EFlag in libedataserver
     - #388789: Make the libiconv test program returns a value
     - #388788: Fix autotools checks for iconv
   * Sync with Debian
   * debian/control:
     - build with libnss-dev (firefox) rather than libnss3-dev (xulrunner)
     - evolution-data-server Breaks evolution (<< 2.9),
       evolution-exchange (<= 2.8.1-0ubuntu1),
       evolution-jescs (<= 2.8.2-0ubuntu3),
       evolution-scalix (<= 10.0.0.357-0ubuntu6)
     - libedataserver1.2-dev Depends on libnspr-dev
     - libcamel1.2-8 Depends on libnss3
     - libedataserverui1.2-8 Depends on libnspr4
     - libebook1.2-9 Depends on libnspr4
     - updated maintainer to desktop team
   * debian/patches/01_translationfiles.patch:
     - fix the list of files to translate.
   * debian/patches/50_libebook-get-contact-list-prepend.patch:
     - dropped, fixed with the new version
   * debian/rules:
     - don't specify the paths for nspr and nss since the package is built
       with firefox
     - don't build documentation, it's distributed in the upstream tarball