8:20 p.m.
Hello,
I have been using syncevolution with my own funambol server for well
over a year without any problems. I had syncevolution running on a
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 laptop where everything worked great until just
recently when I upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. Now, syncevolution
doesn't sync the address book properly and I am at my wits end to figure
out what the problem is and how to fix it. So far, I have identified
the following three problems:
1) When I add a contact to the address book, syncevolution transmits the
contact to my funambol server, however, it omits including the email
address which is left blank on the funambol server after the sync operation.
2) When I delete a contact in the address book, syncevolution does not
delete the corresponding contact on the funambol database.
3) syncevolution always reports "No Changes Necessary" even when the
database has changed.
I have tried two versions of syncevolution as follows:
1) The version that comes with the Ubuntu Lucid repo (which is listed as
1.0+ds1~beta2a-1).
2) The "stable" version from the syncevolution.org site's repo (which is
named syncevoution-evolution and is listed as version 1:0.9.2-2).
I am running evolution version 2.28.3 on my Ubuntu Lucid laptop and
Funambol Server version 8.5.1 on a remote CentOS 5.4 server.
I hope that somebody can provide me some guidance for fixing this. I've
been beating my head against the wall for well over a day without
success. Is there another version of syncevolution that I should try
with evolution version 2.28.3 and funambol server 8.5.1?
Many Thanks!
Gordon Dickens
1:30 a.m.
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 04:20 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
Hello,
I have been using syncevolution with my own funambol server for well
over a year without any problems. I had syncevolution running on a
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 laptop where everything worked great until just
recently when I upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. Now, syncevolution
doesn't sync the address book properly and I am at my wits end to figure
out what the problem is and how to fix it.
Are you sure that you continue to use the local file-based address book
in Evolution? You can check that by running "syncevolution" without
further parameters.
In particular, watch out for the "couchdb" backend - it did not work
with SyncEvolution at all initially and although that may have been
fixed, hasn't been tested with SyncEvolution.
If that's not the problem, then let's look into the specific issues:
So far, I have identified
the following three problems:
1) When I add a contact to the address book, syncevolution transmits the
contact to my funambol server, however, it omits including the email
address which is left blank on the funambol server after the sync operation.
Please run a log at loglevel=3 and cut-and-paste an example contact,
including the conversion steps, from the log file in
~/.cache/syncevolution
2) When I delete a contact in the address book, syncevolution does
not
delete the corresponding contact on the funambol database.
3) syncevolution always reports "No Changes Necessary" even when the
database has changed.
Seems like local change detection is broken somehow. What does
"syncevolution --status funambol" say after deleting and updating one
contact locally?
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.
10:26 a.m.
Hi Patrick,
Many thanks for your prompt reply! The following are my replies to your
three questions.
Answer To Question 1 - The local file-based address book and the couchdb
back end appears to be listed as follows:
# syncevolution
Evolution Address Book = Evolution Contacts = evolution-contacts:
Personal (file:///home/gordon/.evolution/addressbook/local/system)
<default>
Ubuntu One (couchdb://127.0.0.1)
....
..
Could the couchdb be the problem since it is listed?
Answer To Question 2 - Attached is the output from the logfile where I
cut and pasted all sections that related to a new contact that I added.
The contact is named "Test Contact" and the attached log file output is
named "logfile.txt". I hope that I have included everything that you
need from the log file.
Answer To Question 3 - The attached file named "status_funambol.txt" is
the output from the command " funambol --status rhino.funambol" taken
after I deleted one contact and edited one contact but prior to
syncing. Everything here appears normal to me but I am not the expert....
I hope that I am providing exactly the data that you requested. Please
let me know your thoughts.
Thanks,
Gordon Dickens
On 05/25/2010 04:30 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 04:20 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using syncevolution with my own funambol server for well
> over a year without any problems. I had syncevolution running on a
> Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 laptop where everything worked great until just
> recently when I upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. Now, syncevolution
> doesn't sync the address book properly and I am at my wits end to figure
> out what the problem is and how to fix it.
>
Are you sure that you continue to use the local file-based address book
in Evolution? You can check that by running "syncevolution" without
further parameters.
In particular, watch out for the "couchdb" backend - it did not work
with SyncEvolution at all initially and although that may have been
fixed, hasn't been tested with SyncEvolution.
If that's not the problem, then let's look into the specific issues:
> So far, I have identified
> the following three problems:
>
> 1) When I add a contact to the address book, syncevolution transmits the
> contact to my funambol server, however, it omits including the email
> address which is left blank on the funambol server after the sync operation.
>
Please run a log at loglevel=3 and cut-and-paste an example contact,
including the conversion steps, from the log file in
~/.cache/syncevolution
> 2) When I delete a contact in the address book, syncevolution does not
> delete the corresponding contact on the funambol database.
> 3) syncevolution always reports "No Changes Necessary" even when the
> database has changed.
>
Seems like local change detection is broken somehow. What does
"syncevolution --status funambol" say after deleting and updating one
contact locally?
12:53 p.m.
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:26 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Many thanks for your prompt reply! The following are my replies to your
three questions.
Answer To Question 1 - The local file-based address book and the couchdb
back end appears to be listed as follows:
> # syncevolution
> Evolution Address Book = Evolution Contacts = evolution-contacts:
> Personal (file:///home/gordon/.evolution/addressbook/local/system)
> <default>
> Ubuntu One (couchdb://127.0.0.1)
> ....
> ..
Could the couchdb be the problem since it is listed?
No, it shouldn't be used and thus cause no problems.
Answer To Question 2 - Attached is the output from the logfile where
I
cut and pasted all sections that related to a new contact that I added.
The contact is named "Test Contact" and the attached log file output is
named "logfile.txt". I hope that I have included everything that you
need from the log file.
There is an EMAIL property in the outgoing item. I have no idea why the
Funambol server no longer stores it.
Answer To Question 3 - The attached file named
"status_funambol.txt" is
the output from the command " funambol --status rhino.funambol" taken
after I deleted one contact and edited one contact but prior to
syncing. Everything here appears normal to me but I am not the expert....
Yes, that all looks normal.
As the next step you would have to look into your server's log files to
check that it receives the changes.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.
5:01 a.m.
Hi Patrick,
I have done more testing. Based on the syncevolution logs, I came to
suspect that the funambol server is malfunctioning. My testing yielded
the following results:
As stated previously, when running syncevolution to update my funambol
server the email addresses for newly added evolution contacts are not
included with the newly added contacts on the funambol server and
deletions on the evolution address book are not updated to the Funambol
server.
I ran the same tests with the Mozilla SyncML client for Thunderbird and
everything seems to work except deletions from the Thunderbird address
book are not updated to the Funambol server (very similar to the results
with syncevolution). However, email addresses for newly added accounts
are properly included in the synchronization.
So, I signed up for a ScheduleWorld one week demo account and configured
syncevolution for a ScheduleWorld profile and everything works perfectly.
In other words, I have come to the conclusion that my funambol server is
the component that is probably malfunctioning. However, the funambol
installation is very simple and difficult to mess up since you simply
download the server and then execute the installation .bin file. There
really isn't any way to mess the funambol server installation up. I
have now installed the funambol server on two CentOS 5.4 machines and
one Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 machine with the same bad results. I have
installed the current 8.5.1 funambol server as well as the older 8.0.1
funambol server version that I had working on previous Ubuntu Hardy
machine. Nothing works.....
Patrick, do you agree with my conclusion that the funambol server is the
culprit? If so, do you have any insight or recommendations on how to get
my funambol server to work properly with syncevolution?
I looked at the funambol logs which do not appear to provide any details
about the individual steps in the PIM synchronization. Do you have any
recommendations?
Many thanks for your help!
Gordon
On 05/25/2010 03:53 PM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:26 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Many thanks for your prompt reply! The following are my replies to your
> three questions.
>
> Answer To Question 1 - The local file-based address book and the couchdb
> back end appears to be listed as follows:
>
>
>> # syncevolution
>> Evolution Address Book = Evolution Contacts = evolution-contacts:
>> Personal (file:///home/gordon/.evolution/addressbook/local/system)
>> <default>
>> Ubuntu One (couchdb://127.0.0.1)
>> ....
>> ..
>>
> Could the couchdb be the problem since it is listed?
>
No, it shouldn't be used and thus cause no problems.
> Answer To Question 2 - Attached is the output from the logfile where I
> cut and pasted all sections that related to a new contact that I added.
> The contact is named "Test Contact" and the attached log file output is
> named "logfile.txt". I hope that I have included everything that you
> need from the log file.
>
There is an EMAIL property in the outgoing item. I have no idea why the
Funambol server no longer stores it.
> Answer To Question 3 - The attached file named "status_funambol.txt" is
> the output from the command " funambol --status rhino.funambol" taken
> after I deleted one contact and edited one contact but prior to
> syncing. Everything here appears normal to me but I am not the expert....
>
Yes, that all looks normal.
As the next step you would have to look into your server's log files to
check that it receives the changes.
5:34 a.m.
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:01 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
Patrick, do you agree with my conclusion that the funambol server is
the
culprit?
Yes, it seems so.
If so, do you have any insight or recommendations on how to get
my funambol server to work properly with syncevolution?
Sorry, no idea.
I looked at the funambol logs which do not appear to provide any
details
about the individual steps in the PIM synchronization. Do you have any
recommendations?
You'll probably need to increase the server-side log level to get more
information logged and then try to find out what it does with the
messages sent to it from SyncEvolution.
It has been a while since I looked at Funambol server logs. Your chances
of getting help are better on the Funambol users mailing list/forum.
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.
5:56 a.m.
Hi Patrick,
As an alternative, I have read where SyncEvolution versions equal to or
higher than 1.0 beta 3 can be used as a SyncML server. So, my question
is: Can SyncEvolution be setup on a remote Linux server to act as a
SyncML server for multiple users similar to the funambol server?
Thanks,
Gordon
On 05/27/2010 08:34 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:01 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
> Patrick, do you agree with my conclusion that the funambol server is the
> culprit?
>
Yes, it seems so.
> If so, do you have any insight or recommendations on how to get
> my funambol server to work properly with syncevolution?
>
Sorry, no idea.
> I looked at the funambol logs which do not appear to provide any details
> about the individual steps in the PIM synchronization. Do you have any
> recommendations?
>
You'll probably need to increase the server-side log level to get more
information logged and then try to find out what it does with the
messages sent to it from SyncEvolution.
It has been a while since I looked at Funambol server logs. Your chances
of getting help are better on the Funambol users mailing list/forum.
6:11 a.m.
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:56:11 -0400, Gordon Dickens wrote:
Hi Patrick,
As an alternative, I have read where SyncEvolution versions equal to
or higher than 1.0 beta 3 can be used as a SyncML server. So, my
question is: Can SyncEvolution be setup on a remote Linux server to
act as a SyncML server for multiple users similar to the funambol
server?
Yes, I set up a syncevolution server on a deticated server running
Debian Lenny and use it to sync 3 computers and my S60 phone.
Regards,
Tino
6:17 a.m.
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:56 +0100, Gordon Dickens wrote:
As an alternative, I have read where SyncEvolution versions equal to
or
higher than 1.0 beta 3 can be used as a SyncML server. So, my question
is: Can SyncEvolution be setup on a remote Linux server to act as a
SyncML server for multiple users similar to the funambol server?
Yes. See http://syncevolution.org/development/http-server-howto
--
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.
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