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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Solved! Changed channels to R17 with ubuntu-touch/rc/bq-aquaris.en

syncevolution working fine now, no stuffing about with DBUS needed.

M

On 21/02/15 11:51, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> Have tried repeatedly to solve this, with no luck. Is there an easy 
> way to export the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable so 
> that syncevolution can find it?
>
> I can find the current DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS by:
> printenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>
> I just can't seem to do anything with it. I've tried installing 
> dbus-launch, starting and killing an additional process as a script -
>
> |#!/bin/basheval`dbus-launch --sh-syntax`export 
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
> sh /home/phablet/scipts/evolution-sync.sh
>
> And attempting to use this as a cron job:
> ||54 9 * * * env `dbus-launch` sh -c 'trap "kill 
> $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" EXIT; ||/home/phablet/scipts/evolution-sync.sh|
>
> I'm aware that none of this is being officially supported, but would 
> appreciate some advice here. Currently there's no way to use Ubuntu 
> Touch with caldav & carddav servers, so short of returning to Android, 
> I'm attempting to find a hack to solve this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mitchell
>
>
>
> On 07/02/15 10:17, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-02-07 at 10:04 +1100, Mitchell Reese wrote:
> > > First ERROR encountered: creating source registry: Cannot autolaunch
> > > D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY
> > This error is because you're trying to run it under a shell where no
> > DBUS session is known about. You will need to find the correct value for
> > the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable, and include it in the
> > environment when running syncevolution by hand. Otherwise, dbus will
> > attempt to spawn a new session bus, which if successful will then
> > attempt to spawn new instances of whatever service for which
> > communication is attempted, which may not end so nicely.