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Can't browse LDAP directory, yet autocompletion works fine

Bug #70026 reported by Jan Holčapek
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

I've got slapd running on my server. I'm able to feed it with some data, get those data back using ldapsearch and browse my directory with gq. So I suppose there's
everything ok with slapd settings.

When I add this LDAP directory to Evolution as a new source of data for autocompletion, it works as expected: when I type names/emails into To/Cc/Bcc fields, I'm provided with personal data in LDAP directory.

BUT when I select this LDAP directory to see all contacts within it (including photos),
I can't see anything.

(Does this description suffice or I should give you more details?)

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Tags: ldap
Jan Holčapek (janholcapek)
description: updated
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Petchesi Gabriel Horatiu (gabi-prolix) wrote :

I work around this problem by doing the following:
1. Go to Contacts -> LDAP Directory and in the search field select "Any field contains"
2. Press space once and search for that. It will list for you all the contacts in the database.

I agree with you that Evolution should show all contacts by default (they are already cached anyway) and I think this was the behaviour at one point but it was changed.
In 2.4, 2.6 nu data is shown.

This has to be fixed upstream, see Gnome Bugzilla here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324203

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for pointing to the upstream bug.

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importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

This is fixed on trunk now, thanks for reporting.

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
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status: Incomplete → Fix Committed
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James Andrewartha (trs80) wrote :

I think the patch for the upstream bug is for evolution-exchange only, so it won't work for slapd.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the new version is in intrepid

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status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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James Andrewartha (trs80) wrote :

Can someone actually test if this works for slapd (as requested by the original reporter) or only for exchange (which is what the patches look like)?

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Olivier Cailloux (olivier-cailloux) wrote :

I am affected by this bug and using slapd. I will be able to tell you if it is solved as soon as Debian updates his evolution version (still at 2.22 here, http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/evolution-data-server.html). Any idea how to speed up the process? The Debian evolution version is getting really old...

Olivier

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linuxrules (linuxrules) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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James Andrewartha (trs80) wrote :

Arguably this is more http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220285 modulo the fact that OpenLDAP's VLV support is only in CVS head at the moment, it'll be in 2.4.18 when that comes out.

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