Created attachment 595548 [details] Screenshot for example 2 Description of problem: The Evolution address book is unable to perform basic functions (adding contacts, adding/removing other address books) with local address books. In most cases, address book operations fail with a message to the effect that the address book "cannot be opened. Please check the path <path in ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook> exists" etc. The file mentioned does not exist, not is it created by evolution at shutdown. Example 1: Adding a new contact. 1. Create a new user account to ensure a clean start. 2. Start up Evolution. Follow the wizard with dummy e-mail account settings. 3. Go to the Address Book view. 4. Click to add a new Contact in the Personal address book. This just fails silently. Example 2: Adding a new address book. 1. Add a new address book: give it a name, click to create it. 2. Click on the new address book. Note the red banner error message. (Screenshot attached.) 3. Attempt to delete this unusable address book by right-clicking on it and selecting delete. This fails with a nondescript "unable to comply" message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-3.4.3-1.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Always.
Thanks for a bug report. I can reproduce this too and I moved this upstream as [1]. Please see [1] for any further updates. If possible, please CC yourself there, in case upstream developers will have additional questions. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679245
There is a workaround, you can create the folder for evolution-data-server, which can be done with a command like this: $ mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/.local/share/evolution/addressbook/xxx The actual path depends on the error message shown in evolution.