Evolution plugin does not work in Ubuntu Intrepid

[Guido Conaldi]

Since I upgraded to Intrepid the evolution plugin cannot be loaded and gnome do gives this error when starting:

[Error 15:01:00.321] "Evolution Contacts" (Evolution.ContactItemSource)
    encountered an error in UpdateItems: An exception was thrown by the type
    initializer for Evolution.SourceList

The issue has been reported by other users here: https://answers.launchpad.net/do/+question/49322 but I thought opening a bug report would have been the best procedure.

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

This looks like a bug in libevolution-cil, not GNOME Do.

On Nov 2, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Guido Conaldi <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Since I upgraded to Intrepid the evolution plugin cannot be loaded and
> gnome do gives this error when starting:
>
> [Error 15:01:00.321] "Evolution
> Contacts" (Evolution.ContactItemSource)
> encountered an error in UpdateItems: An exception was thrown by
> the type
> initializer for Evolution.SourceList
>
> The issue has been reported by other users here:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/do/+question/49322 but I thought
> opening
> a bug report would have been the best procedure.
>
> ** Affects: do
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> Evolution plugin does not work in Ubuntu Intrepid
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292622
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[olliwolli (mlists)]

I experienced the same bug. I found the problem because tasque couldn't connect to the evolution dataserver, too. Tasque said a dll was missing. The problem is that
/usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.9 does not exist as softlink in intrepid.

The a quick fix for tasque and for gnome-do is to execute the following command:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.11.0.0 /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.9

(this assumes that libedataserver1.2-11 is installed)

[Guido Conaldi (guido-conaldi)]

The bug is a duplicate, but even after symlinking libedataserver-1.2.so.9 the plugin does not work correctly for me: the email are created with "///" in front of the chosen email address in the TO field.

Is this an indipendent issue?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Guido - olliwolli's 'quick fix' would be unreliable at best and I'm not surprised that it doesn't work for you. A new version of evolution-sharp will be on the way soon, built against the current version of libedataserver

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

This did work for me, though we'll see how long it lasts.

[UnSandpiper (aybora)]

Hi,

I'm also getting this in the console when activating the Evolution Plugin for Gnome-Do (0.8.0).
"Evolution.ContactItemSource "Evolution Contacts" encountered an error in UpdateItems: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Evolution.SourceList."

Chris said earlier:
>A new version of evolution-sharp will be on the way soon, built against the current version of libedataserver
>
I see here https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-sharp that this new version hasn't found its way into intrepid yet, but there is a newer version under development for Jaunty only.

Any chance we will see at least a fix for Intrepid still?

[perezxolote (perezxolote)]

After using the fix posted by olliwolli the Evolution Plugin worked well with Ubuntu Intrepid. Nevertheless I get the same problem again after upgrading to GnomeDo 0.8.1. Starting GnomeDo in the console gives following output:

"(Do:30724): libebook-CRITICAL **: file e-book.c: line 2127: assertion `book && E_IS_BOOK (book)' failed
Evolution.ContactItemSource "Evolution Contacts" encountered an error in UpdateItems: file e-book.c: line 2127: assertion `book && E_IS_BOOK (book)' failed."

This seems to be an other error description as the formers.
(sorry for my crappy english!)

[Javier Lorenzana (skqr)]

This is not a duplicate of "beagle-backend-evolution cant find libedataserver-1.2.so.9", I experience it and don't even have Beagle or any of it's back-ends installed.

[Javier Lorenzana (skqr)]

A year went by, no evolution-sharp version came along that fixed it either.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Javier Lorenzana (skqr)]

Anybody know if this is even relevant still?

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

It's still relevant to evolution-sharp; evolution-sharp is totally
broken.

The Do plugin has been removed because it doesn't work, but could easily
be reinstated if someone invested the effort to get a working
evolution-sharp. That's likely to be not *too* hard.