Synchronising Tomboy via Webdav doesn't work

Still relevant for guty.

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# dpkg -l tomboy
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ii tomboy 0.8.0-1 desktop note taking program using Wiki style link
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There is no package inside the ubuntu sources which containe a file "wdfs".

I get the same error with Beta 7.10.

Adding my user to the fuse group and logging in again didn't fix it.

G

you have to build wdfs and move it to the PATH, e.g. usr/local/bin

use:
wget http://noedler.de/projekte/wdfs/wdfs-1.4.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf wdfs-1.4.2.tar.gz
cd wdfs-1.4.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd src
sudo cp wdfs /usr/local/bin

that did it for me!

why is this not fixed for ubuntu hardy? Syncronising documents and other stuff in ubuntu is desperately needed.

I have given up on syncing Tomboy notes via WebDAV...for now.

Even though I got it to work on my home desktop PC, it just didn't work very well. Granted, I only tried one webdav account. I couldn't make it work at all on my work PC.

I suspect there must be more to fixing it than meets the eye.

G

Need packaging wdfs and mark them in tomboy dependencies

URL: http://noedler.de/projekte/wdfs/

may someone experiencing the issue forward this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org? leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks in advance.

Confirming and setting to Wishlist as it is a known issue by Upstream Tomboy and would require a new Addin to be written.

As Vladimir said, the bug here is that wdfs needs to be packaged and added to Ubuntu. No upstream bug required, no new addin required, AFAICT.

Steps to produce a wdfs package are described here:
http://blog.vaxius.net/?p=18

This bug still present in Intrepid.

changing to 'new'... hoping for re-triage, don't think it's wishlist, because no new code is required, just packaging of wdfs.

Please change the importance from 'Wishlist' to something else. The comment from Greg Grossmeier is not correct in my opinion: Tomboy is currently encouraging the user to install 'wdfs', but doing so is not possible. No new AddIn for Tomboy is required, what is simply required is that wdfs be packaged for Ubuntu, and no changes AFAICT to the Tomboy package itself.

So: the importance is higher than wishlist because Tomboy's as-presented functionality is broken and gives misleading user feedback, and the fix is not an upstream problem, because no new Tomboy code is required.

Hi, Just thought I'd mention that after two and a half years, this bug/snafu is still present.

Using 9.10 which out of the box installs UbuntuOne and trumpets its ability to synchronise notes with Tomboy. As described above, it fails with no error in the description box. Running with --debug, reveals it is missing wdfs. Which isn't in any of the ubuntu repositories.

So, if this feature doesn't work, why are the Ubuntu marketing team selling it?

Hi Plutocrat, you seem a bit mixed up. Let me try to clarify a couple of things.

Ubuntu One does not use WebDAV to sync with Tomboy. If you want to sync Tomboy with U1, please follow the instructions:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Notes

If you really want to use WebDAV to sync instead of one of the other backends, then install wdfs. But Ubuntu is certainly not selling Tomboy's WebDAV sync support in any way, shape, or form.

At least the WebDAV sync was working in Ubuntu 9.10 after installing wdfs manually. Now I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 and I completely lost the ability to sync via WebDAV, Tomboy giving the following messages:

   Getting configuration from the GNOME keyring failed with the following message: The keyring daemon is not available
   Saving configuration to the GNOME keyring failed with the following message: The keyring daemon is not available

While the keyring daemon seems to be up and running.

See this thread for more infos: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9220566

Hi Eric, that is a different bug you are experiencing. Please file a new bug for it so it can be addressed, thanks.

Sandy,
How can we request the wdfs package be added to the ubuntu distro? Some of us here have a legitimate reason to use WebDAV. For our company we have privacy regulations that we cannot store data in the cloud and must use internal servers. We already have a very active WebDAV server for storage running over an HTTPS connection.

Eric, just asked what would be the process, and here it is:

easier is to get it in debian, otherwise try #ubuntu-motu or wiki documentation

so, first check it is in Debian, if it is, then ask in #ubuntu-motu on freenode to have it added, and they'll tell you what to do.

wdfs is still not in the Ubuntu repos per bionic (18.04) and WebDAV sync is still not working.