[Evolution] Bug#413142: Bug#413142: evolution-exchange: Evolution stopped working with exchange - probably depends on keyring problem

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu, 2008-12-18 at 15:07 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Unfortunately part of (my long mail/bug) report yesterday was that I
> mentioned that I'm using KDE. I don't want to have to do anything with
> gnome if possible, to keep my work simple.

Then don't use evolution.

>  I don't think the gnome-keyring was running in Suse or in kubuntu. 

Well, it you can't be sure…


> I just think there are 3 possibilites
> 
> 1) dbus providing the keyring manager (thus pointing to kwallet)

dbus doesn't “provide” a keyring manager. But, a keyring manager
provides a dbus interface.

> I uninstalled the gnome-keyring now it's proven that evolution depends on
> it, but not directly. It expects from dbus to provide: org.gnome.keyring.
> 
> ** (evolution:19240): WARNING **: couldn't communicate with gnome keyring
> daemon via dbus: The name org.gnome.keyring was not provided by
> any .service files
> 
> Is it possible to provide this key pointing to kwallet. I think it is, 

I don't think so. You'll have to ask the kwallet people, but I don't
think a KDE app will provide a org.gnome interface.


> 2) libraries with Evo version 2.22 changed so that it depends on the keyring
> now.

Well, I didn't follow this, but maybe there are good reasons for that.
> 
> 3) there is also some other option I can not think of
> 
> Anyway I'm going to try to run Suse or Kubuntu from backup and check if it's
> really debian related, or may be the admins changed something on server
> side which I would exclude from the options.

If you want to use evolution-exchange, and evolution-exchange wants
gnome-keyring, then use gnome-keyring, or don't use evo-exchange at all.

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis