On Mi, 2011-08-10 at 10:39 +0200, Tobias Hägele wrote: > is this right: > $ syncevolution --daemon=no loglevel=4 blubber calendar > then > $ syncevolution blubber No, this needs to be: $ syncevolution --daemon=no --run loglevel=4 blubber calendar The first command should have complained like this: [usage information] ERROR: Properties specified, but neither '--configure' nor '--run' - what did you want? Didn't it do that? It does when I try it.

> (syncevo-dbus-server:3054): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: > assertion `g_utf8_validate (string, -1, NULL)' failed That last line in the log file confirms that there is a character encoding problem. Thanks, I can reproduce that now. No need for further testing at the moment.