Problems with evolution data server/evolution

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Hi all. This may not be the appropriate place to ask this, since I've
had the exact same problem on the latest Fedora test release, but I'm
having trouble getting the combo of gnome-pilot, evolution-data-server
 and evolution to play nice together. I've been trying for weeks, in
two different distros, and I'm hoping someone here as solved it.

gnome-pilot and my Palm m500 sync correctly over /dev/ttyUSB1, though
maybe1- 2 times out of 10 gpilotd "quits unexpectedly" (but I can live
with that and I've sent all the information I have to using the
bug-reporting feature in both Ubuntu and Fedora, so one can only
hope...)

Evolution and the Pilot sync and pass changes back and forth in
contacts (address list) without any problems (other than the
aforementioned occassional gpilotd crashes).

The problem is with calendar data.  If I *do* succeed in getting
calendar data into evolutino, the interface (loading days, switching
days) is glacially slow. It takes a couple of minutes to respond when
I click on a new day, for example.

Other times, the sync takes an extraordinary amount of time (many
hours), during which approximately 3 megabytes of calendar data gets
copied at less than 300-baud speed from the Palm database to
./evolution/calendar/system/local/calendar.ics (that's approximate,
I'm at work, not on my Ubuntu system at the moment, so I can't
remember the exact directoy path). When finished, the result is the
same as above: glacially slow performance in Evolution.

I've tried starting from scratch (deleting and recreating the user
accounts, completely uninstalling and reinstalling evolution, etc.) at
least a dozen times. I've fooled around with the limited options in
gnome-pilot (not splitting or splitting multi-day events being the
only one, it seems). I don't see any messages in /var/log/messages
that indicate an error (but maybe someone can point me to a more
appropriate log).

Oddly, the gnome-pilot/Palm part *seems* to work fine if I don't use
evolution. If I recreate the account and then set up and use
gnome-pilot by itself, telling it to sync everything, it appears to
work. Syncs happens at a normal pace, Palm is happy, etc. But I want
to be able to view and edit the data in Evolution, in the probably
mistaken idea that therein lies integration with more gnome apps down
the road.

I've been on the Evolution site, but there's nothing (at all) in the
FAQ for Evolution 2.* and no mention of this (that I've found) in the
forums. Has anyone else seen this?