Can't add new address book

[Andrew Jorgensen]

Evolution (2.6.1, dapper) won't allow me to add a new address book. Select "New Address Book", enter a name for it. The "OK" button stays disabled. Can't find any workaround.

[Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg)]

Screenshot showing the bug.

[Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg)]

This is not a duplicate of bug30843.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. That works perfectly for me. Can you run evolution in a terminal and paste the output here? If that information is too sparse, it'd be nice to run
  CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution > evolution.log
and attach evolution.log here.

[Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg)]

I can add the log if you still want me too, but there's no log output (even with CAMEL_DEBUG=all) while attempting this operation. The OK button in the dialog simply stays disabled. It's disabled to begin with because an empty string isn't a valid name so perhaps the string never gets validated?

I'm surprised that it works perfectly for you. I wonder if you aren't trying precisely the same thing we're trying. When you tried it did your dialog look like the one I attached earlier?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I had the same dialogue, only the 'OK' was enabled, once I typed one character in the text entry.

[Stian Jordet (stian-web)]

Same problem here...

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

yup, looks like I am the third.

[hove99 (hove99)]

I have the same problem with evolution 2.6.1 (2.6.1-0ubuntu1). Can delete address book, but the "ok" button when adding an address book remains inactive.

[hove99 (hove99)]

BTW: I get this from terminal when running "evolution":

(evolution-2.6:7500): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(evolution-2.6:7500): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
CalDAV Eplugin starting up ...

(evolution-2.6:7500): evolution-mail-WARNING **: ignored this junk plugin: not enabled or we have already loaded one

(evolution-2.6:7500): e-utils-WARNING **: Plugin 'Spamassassin junk plugin' failed to load hook 'org.gnome.evolution.mail.junk:1.0'

(evolution-2.6:7500): camel-WARNING **: camel_exception_get_id called with NULL parameter.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

This bug is still needs info - can't anybody add the portions of evolution.log generated by
        CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution > evolution.log
to the bug report?

[Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg)]

I was just going to but now I am unable to reproduce the bug. I disabled my accounts so that the debug log wouldn't have any personal data in it and when I tried to reproduce the bug it wasn't there anymore. Re-enabling the accounts didn't cause the bug to return either.

Can any of the other reporters still show the bug?

[Jerome Jolidon (jerome-jolidon)]

Here is the log of Camel Debug, but it shows absolutely nothing (as far as I can see) about this bug, and I have no explanation for it.
During the session in Evolution with Camel Debug, I tried to add two new address books: one in local and one in LDAP.

[Jerome Jolidon (jerome-jolidon)]

Here are some informations more about my installed softwares:
Evolution is 2.6.1 from evolution2.6.1-0ubuntu1,
Evolution data server is 1.6.1 from 1.6.1-0ubuntu1,
runing on the dapper drake flight 6 (fully upgraded today 20th of april 2006 11:59 UTC).

If you need more, just ask...

[hove99 (hove99)]

I just did a clean Dapper Beta install, and the problem still exists. I am not able to create a new address book. Here's my Camel debug.

[hove99 (hove99)]

I just managed to work around the problem by disabling the plugin "Exchange Operations" under "Edit" -> "Plugins". Now I can add address book again; strange...

[Jerome Jolidon (jerome-jolidon)]

Seems that we've got a winner: disabling "Exchange Operations" solves the problem.

Actually, I've got another problem after this disabling, but it has maybe nothing to do with this bug... Here is the trick: When I create an address book without "Exchange Operations", it says:
"Cannot open this address book. Check that path ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/xxx@computer exists and that you have access rights." As this has been translated from french, the english text is maybe somehow different. Then when I try to add contacts to this address book or delete if, it's ok, so it's a minor problem.

If anyone has the same, please let us know...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Good catch for the exchange plugin option, I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339555

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 evolution (2.6.1-0ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/16_new_address_book_fix.patch:
     - fix the new adressbooks validation (Ubuntu: #39086)

[hove99 (hove99)]

Great! I seems to work, now I can enable the plugin an still add a new address book.

[Andreas Haller (ahaller)]

Nice, now it works.