[SyncEvolution] "Sync now" button in sync-ui is disabled

[Patrick Ohly]

On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 22:41 +0100, Tino Mettler wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> I did some updates to the Debian packages but some final testing
> revealed that the "Sync now" button in sync-ui is disabled. Syncing
> via command line works fine.
> 
> The changes to the old packages are commit
> 8765654ff355aed3b982bd965e98c00dfd19d1c3
> (libical: support libical v3) in libsynthesis and
> ebf34f9ffe8bf575e1a20beb069ef287366d8ed8
> (GNOME: replace gnome-keyring with libsecret) as well as
> f94ea6df6847d045db7a45fe8b4cfa0b344dfc58
> (libical: support libical v3) in syncevolution.
> 
> I have to admit that I don't use sync-ui myself but only check if it
> works when preparing an update, so I can not tell when it really
> stopped working. Due to the libical3 transition I can't really check
> if
> this also happens with the old package. Any hints how I can debug
> this?

Run dbus-monitor and look at the communication between sync-ui and
syncevo-dbus-server. Does it show anything unusual?

I also did some work on SyncEvolution to get it working better on
recent distros (i.e. replace libraries and methods with contemporary
ones). It's finally starting to pass testing without issues, so I could
do a new release now.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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