Hi, Milan, thank you for your efforts. I think you're right. Either there is a problem with the current flathub version under Linux Mint 19.1 or there may be a permission problem. I just don't have the time to keep dealing with it. I had installed this program version on several PCs. The problems were very similar, although the installations were not completely identical. Sometimes there were crashes with the address book, sometimes with the calendar.
Meanwhile I have installed the Evolution version from the official Ubuntu package on all these PCs. This is only version 3.28.5, but so far everything works fine. I have not noticed the problems with this version that are sometimes cited on the net. Another advantage is that I am very familiar with the file structure. I had tried to copy the address book in the form you mentioned. This worked, but the import of this file into Thunderbird was incomplete. In the Evolution version I now installed it worked fine. As I said, I want to use the program for daily work. This seems to work now. Unfortunately I don't have time for further experiments. But thanks again for your help. Best regards Tsak On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 11:00 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 12:15 +0200, Karl-Heinz Krämer wrote: > > First, I had transferred both from Mozilla Thunderbird to Personal > > but they often crashed. > > Hi, > how did you transfer them? Through the Import wizard, or manually by > copying files, or... > > > I think I could solve the problem with the Calendar after I copied > > it > > to a new Calendar named KH besides the Personal one. It still > > crashes > > sometimes but very rarely. ... > > > > But the Contact list generally crashed after starting the Evolution > > program even though I have built it completely new. > > When you say 'built', do you mean like recompiled the evolution(- > data- > server) sources, or deleting underlying data files of evolution(- > data- > server) and let it recreate them from scratch? > > Let's start with the crashes, the other things can be just because of > that, thus it'll be better to figure out that first. Could you > install > debuginfo packages for evolution-data-server (and ideally also > evolution itself and possibly glib2), please? It'll help to show > where > the crash happened. Once you've it installed, you can run the > background factories from a terminal like this: > > $ gdb /usr/libexec/evolution-addressbook-factory --ex "r -w" \ > --ex "t a a bt" --ex q > > and couple seconds later run the other factory: > > $ gdb /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory --ex "r -w" \ > --ex "t a a bt" --ex q > > Both commands run them and when they stop, possibly due to the crash, > they print where it happened and will quit gdb. The interesting part > is > not where the backtraces starts, but also few lines above it, which > can > contain a message, some kind of runtime warning or assertion, which > can > explain why the program had been aborted. The actual path where the > factories are stored can differ in your distribution. > > Before uploading both backtraces anywhere, make sure they do not > contain anything private. It can be passwords, email addresses, > server > addresses and so on. I usually search for "pass" at least (quotes for > clarity only). > > > The error messages are as follows: > > ... > > You can select the error message and copy it anywhere, instead of > using > images. The "bold text" and "non-bold text" are two separate parts, > thus they can be selected only separately, but otherwise the > copy&paste > works on it. > > As the errors can be caused by the crashes I'd rather skip them for > now > (usually factory crash has slightly different error messages). > > > The files in my home folder .var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/data are > > as > > follows: > > Hmm, is that about Evolution in Flatpak? The host system uses > ~/.local/share/evolution/ and similar directories usually. If it's > Flatpak, is it from Flathub or from elsewhere? And if it's Flatpak, > then the gdb commands I provided above won't work, because the > Flatpak > version runs its own factories (if the Flathub version is used). > > > Another problem in this context is that I did not find a way to > > save > > the Contact list and the Calendar independent of the rest of the > > program, so that I could install Evolution completely new. > > It's easy with On This Computer contacts and calendars (and task > lists > and memo lists, to be complete). Even easier with Calendar (and tasks > list and memo lists), you can simply copy the calendar.ics file (as > in > the path your screen shot shows) and import it into any program, > which > supports .ics format. Evolution allows that too, it's in File- > >Import- > > Single file->..... > > When things work, you can right-click respective Address book, > Calendar, ... in the GUI and pick in the context menu "Save as", > which > will save the book, calendar,... content into a standard format (.vcf > for books, .ics for calendars/memos/tasks). > > As the factories are crashing for you, you can extract the contact > data > from their contacts.db file (as you found it on disk) with this > command: > > $ sqlite3 ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/system/contacts.db > \ > "SELECT vcard FROM folder_id" >vcards.vcf > > which saves all the contacts into the vcards.vcf file, which can be > imported anywhere where the .vcf format is recognized (similar as > with > the calendar.ics file). There are not inlined photos for the > contacts, > they are left on the disk (they are saved in the 'photos' directory > beside the contacts.db file). It seems you do not have any photos > set, > according to your directory listing, thus it might not be a problem. > > Hope it helps. > > Bye, > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
