Bug 357583 – mail-client/evolution-2.32.2-r1 - address book is broken

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description jcat 2011-03-05 22:52:06 UTC]

When I create a new user on the system, log in as that user, and configure evolution for the first time with a simple local mail account, the contacts are unusable.

The first time evolution is launched, if I click on Contacts, there is no "On This Computer" menu with a personal address book.
The second time I launch evolution, the "On This Computer" menu is there with an address book, but I can't make any new contacts.  The context menu option is greyed out, and the new contact button simply does nothing.

Evolution reports an error "Unable to open address book"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create new user
2. Log into gnome
3. Launch Evolution
4. Try and create new contacts

Actual Results:  
New contacts buttons do nothing, so contacts can't be created.

Expected Results:  
New contacts buttons should open a "New Contact" dialogue box.

GUI ERROR:

This address book cannot be opened.  Please check that the path /home/test/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system exists and that permissions are set to access it.

Detailed error message: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook: Timeout was reached


TERMINL/CLI ERROR:

(evolution:15230): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:3079: cannot activate book: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook: Timeout was reached


mail-client/evolution-2.32.2-r1
gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.32.2
dev-python/evolution-python-2.32.0


emerge --info
Portage 2.2.0_alpha26 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.37-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7250_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.4.6, 2.6.6-r2, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.3-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.7.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Repositories: gentoo sunrise jcat
Installed sets: @system
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-10.1 skype-eula googleearth"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/local/overlay/jcat"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avahi berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dell dri dssi dts dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ipod jack jack-tmpfs jackmidi jpeg ladspa lame laptop lash lcms ldap libnotify live mad midi mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musepack nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline samba sdl session sndfile snmp spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l2 vorbis vst wavpack win32codecs x264 x86 xcb xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2011-03-06 12:04:11 UTC]

What errors do you get in terminal when running evolution? Please also try rebuilding "dbus-glib" and rebooting

[Comment 2 jcat 2011-03-06 15:26:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What errors do you get in terminal when running evolution? Please also try
> rebuilding "dbus-glib" and rebooting
> 

The terminal error was already posted above, but here it is again:

(evolution:15230): libebook-WARNING **: e-book.c:3079: cannot activate book:
Error calling StartServiceByName for
org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.AddressBook: Timeout was reached


I've just tried rebuilding dbus-glib and rebooting, but it has not helped.


Cheers,
jcat

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2011-03-06 19:58:22 UTC]

Is it the only message shown in terminal when running evolution? Please attach ~/.xsession-errors file

[Comment 4 Joop Stakenborg 2011-03-06 20:17:22 UTC]

I have the same bug here on my ~x86 system. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know. I have the same errors as reported by jcat.

[Comment 5 jcat 2011-03-06 20:37:03 UTC]

Created attachment 264999 [details]
xsession-errors file

.xsession-errors file as requested.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2011-03-06 20:45:25 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354233 ***