[Evolution] Bug#509129: evolution-exchange: Evolution-exchange stopped working suddenly (partly SOLVED)

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On ven, 2008-12-19 at 00:39 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> Hello, don't understand me wrong and please be a bit more patient. I know
>> evolution is gnome app and I use it because kde didn't provide exchange
>> plugin as evolution did (respect). So I'm ready to use anything so that
>> it's happy and works.
>> The problem is that it was pretty happy for may be 2y. and I have a lot
>> of mail saved in evolution, so I don't want to use other apps right now
>> ;-).
> 
> By the way, you can export your mail from evolution, to import them in
> another evolution. There's a backup plugin for that, which will then
> appear in the File menu.

Yes, Iknow this and I was thinking to give it a try, but I'm really willing to 
track the problem down and to solve it. I already have a backup from what was 
working.

>> 
>> The information you gave here brought me to the idea to try one very
>> simple thing. I removed everything evolution and gnome-keyring realted
>> and reinstalled.
>> This didn't help, so I created a new account, logged in and configured
>> evolution with my exchange account data. It worked! It said it can not
>> communicate with gnome-keyring. the keyring was not running. I started it
>> I logged in into my mailbox after creating a passphrase.
> 
> Nice.
>> 
>> I changed to my own account. I removed the exchange configuration and ...
>> deleted .evolution/exchange and the .gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring
>> 
>> I created a new configuration and logged into my mail account.
>> As I clicked the checkbox "remember password" it runs the gnome-keyring
>> prompt to enter or initially to create password key.
> 
> Because gnome-keyring was running, yes. If you don't want gnome-keyring,
> remove it, you'll be sure it'll not get in the way (as in the “new
> account” case).

I think I made it clear that it is not working without the gnome-keyring

>> 
>> This makes me think that your statement that it saves the password to
>> gconf is not valid at least for, which means that may be I have a problem
>> with gconf.
> 
> Well, I'm not really sure it saves it in gconf, but I'm sure it saves it
> somewhere I'm not interested in when gnome-keyring isn't available.

Unfortunately exactly this is not happening, that makes me think the other 
system is not available.

> 
>> This would be also a very good explanation why I was not prompted for
>> keyring password in Suse or kubuntu, though honestly this is my
>> hypothesis.
> 
> “this” being?

The hypothesis is that it tries to store the PW in gconf but fails and then 
tries to store in gnome-keyring. I see evidence only for the second part.
If I remove the gnome-keyring, then no password storage method is available 
and evolution behaves funny.

>> 
>> how do I check this gconf thingie, or better should I ask what exactly
>> should I check. I remember I used the editor to do configurations in my
>> personal gconf few years ago.
> 
> Use gconf-editor and explore, evo settings should be in Apps/Evolution.
> 

I exported with gconftool-2 -R /apps/evolution and diffed to what I think was 
working before in kubuntu.

I don't see evidence for the hypothesis there, but as far as I know gconf is a 
dynamic config system, so may be I have to boot in the system.

I did chroot for now

When I try to reconfigure (upgrade etc) gconf related apps I always see some 
errors regarding scrollkeeper-omf files. I don't know if it's related

> 
> Oh, and last things:
> 
> PLEASE LET THE BUG ON CC:
> DONT ANSWER TO THE LIST.
> IS THAT CLEAR?

Well, this is because I post over gmane and my yahoo account. I hope it's fine 
now. I couldn't understand what exactly means "contact me if you have a ...." 
in some of the previous mails

regards

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