Tomboy doesn't start anymore

[Ludovic Claude]

Binary package hint: tomboy

Hello,

Ubuntu 9.04, amd64, all latest updates installed.

I have been using Tomboy for a long time, but now it doesn't start anymore. I'm getting this message when I run from the command line:

ludo:~$ tomboy
[DEBUG]: NoteManager created with note path "/home/ludo/.tomboy".
[INFO]: Initializing Mono.Addins

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not read add-in description
  at Mono.Addins.Addin.get_Description () [0x00000]
  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.CheckHostAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly asm) [0x00000]
  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.ActivateRoots () [0x00000]
  at Mono.Addins.AddinSessionService.Initialize () [0x00000]
  at Mono.Addins.AddinManager.Initialize (System.String configDir) [0x00000]
  at Tomboy.AddinManager.InitializeMonoAddins () [0x00000]
  at Tomboy.AddinManager..ctor (System.String tomboy_conf_dir) [0x00000]
  at Tomboy.NoteManager.CreateAddinManager () [0x00000]
  at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory, System.String backup_directory) [0x00000]
  at Tomboy.NoteManager..ctor (System.String directory) [0x00000]
  at Tomboy.Tomboy.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

[Ludovic Claude (ludovicc)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tomboy 0.14.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev pulse-access pulse-rt scanner tape users video

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. Can you recreate this issue with a new user account on your machine?

[Ludovic Claude (ludovicc)]

I have another use on my machine, and this issue doesn't appear. It looks like some information in the ~/.tomboy folder was corrupted. I deleted the following folders:
~/.tomboy/addin-db-000
                 /addin-db-001
                 /addins
                 /Plugins

Now Tomboy starts again... I have no idea why this issue happened though.

Ludovic

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks. I did wonder if that would be the case with the information in the call trace you provided.