[Freedombox-discuss] Tracking down the radicale problem: SOLVED.

[A. F. Cano]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 06:36:12PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 04:51:46PM -0400, I wrote:
> ...
> and deleted the whole file from the calendar.ics directory.  This is
> after the data was migrated to V2.x as previously described in this
> thread.
> 
> The error still occurs!  ...
> 
> Where else could this entry be stored?

Well, I found out.  I was looking at /var/lib/radicale/collections/<user>
and there was another directory tree under
/var/lib/radicale/collections/collection-root/<user>

I deleted the offending entries and the error messages disappeared.

> I also went looking for the entry that didn't have a "FN" entry, per
> the error message below:
> 
> [pid: 1129|app: 0|req: 37024/46900] 192.168.200.2 (<user>) {82 vars in
> 1409 bytes} [Fri Apr  5 18:04:14 2019] PROPFIND /radicale/<user>/ =>
> generated 208 bytes in 25 msecs (HTTP/1.1 207) 4 headers in 173 bytes (2
> switches on core 1)
> [7fda9da86780] ERROR: An exception occurred during PROPFIND request on
> '/<user>/': Failed to load item '1522939171.R947.vcf' in
> '<user>/addressbook.vcf': 'VCARD components must contain at least 1 FN'

In the new directory structure I had to manually edit every entry that
didn't have an FN: field and added one, usually to duplicate the N:
field contents, sometimes I left it blank.  After all the offending
entries/files were corrected, the errors disappeared and radicale is
working again.

So, probably a case of very old addressbook and calendar entries, some
of which were from Palm Pilot days.

Augustine.