Hello, Thank you. There were indeed previous versions of libebook. I've fixed this but seem to have broken something else as now --print- databases results in a list of errors relating to reading KDE databases? further sugestions appreciated, running evolution 3.13.7, and the evolution-data-server version matches. I see that there are older versions of libebackend and libedata-book, but an autoremove does not delete them. thanks, zan -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com&gt; To: Zan <zan(a)colorado.edu&gt; Cc: syncevolution(a)syncevolution.org <syncevolution(a)syncevolution.org&gt; Subject: Re: [SyncEvolution] accessing local database error status 10500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:50:43 -0700 On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 10:56 -0900, Zan wrote: This is usually the result of an inconsistent Evolution Data Server installation. The libebook that SyncEvolution uses does not match the installed evolution-data-server daemon. Check which libebook versions you have installed and purge all obsolete ones. -- 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.

these errors thank you. [ERROR] KDE Address Book = KDE Contacts = kde-contacts: [ERROR] accessing databases failed [ERROR] Akonadi is not running. It can be started with 'akonadictl start'. [ERROR] KDE Calendar = kde-calendar: [ERROR] accessing databases failed [ERROR] Akonadi is not running. It can be started with 'akonadictl start'. [ERROR] KDE Task List = KDE Tasks = kde-tasks: [ERROR] accessing databases failed [ERROR] Akonadi is not running. It can be started with 'akonadictl start'. [ERROR] KDE Memos = kde-memos: [ERROR] accessing databases failed [ERROR] Akonadi is not running. It can be started with 'akonadictl start'. I tried starting Akonadi, but it did not apear to help, producing this line, but no usable output: Database "akonadi" opened using driver "QMYSQL" KDE Address Book = KDE Contacts = kde-contacts: -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com&gt; To: Zan <zan(a)colorado.edu&gt; Cc: syncevolution(a)syncevolution.org <syncevolution(a)syncevolution.org&gt; Subject: Re: [SyncEvolution] accessing local database error status 10500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:28:18 -0700 On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 12:42 -0900, Zan wrote: Which errors? -- 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.