Error loading address book.

[runout]

On opening the Evolution Contacts most times i get the following Message:

Error loading address book.

This address book cannot be opened. Please check that the path /home/userdir/.evolution/addressbook/local/system exists and that permissions are set to access it.

Detailed error message: Other error

related posting with suggested fix: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9921

[runout (office-runout)]

found this...

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2009-April/msg00139.html

but i'm not sure what to do with this information.
what do with /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml ?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, it looks like bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547565 ; you might want to comment there, thanks.

[Santiago Roland (santiago-roland)]

Hello, This never happened to me before. I periodically made backup settings of evolution mail and happened that could not restore contacts in last backup settings... and have this error.

regards,

Santiago.-

[Jono Bacon (jonobacon)]

I am experiencing the same issue and I am using UbuntuOne as the contact store.

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

Can you please do the following on a terminal:

$ evolution --force-shutdown
$ /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory

then, start Evolution and try accessing your U1 addressbook and paste here all the output in the terminal, please

[runout (office-runout)]

/usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory
bash: /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory: No such file or directory

(not using UbuntuOne)

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

runout, are you running evolution? if so, something's really broken on your system, since that file belongs to evolution-data-server, which is a needed dependeny of Evolution

[runout (office-runout)]

you are joking :)

i tried on 2 different systems.
e-addressbook-factory is on neither system.

both are:
ubuntu 10.04, 64bit
evolution 2.28.3
all updates installed.
i think, original install was 8.04 upgraded->9.10->10.04

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

I'm not joking, so I guess you have an old version of evolution, which is the case. So for that one, do the same, but instead of running e-addressbook-factory, run evolution-data-server-1.2

[runout (office-runout)]

i 'd mean: joking about i'm running evolution.

if that's an old version, why is it the actual version in the repos?

[runout (office-runout)]

i run evolution 2.30.3 for some weeks now
and do not have this problem since upgrading to this version.

thanks for (silently) fixing it.