Error modifying contact, other error when saving contacts

[Joshua Hoover]

Filed on behalf of user Simon Schneebeli, who gets an the "Error modifying contact. Other error." in Evolution when attempting to modify or delete a contact. Debug log is attached.
Most likely this error happens due to internal desktopcouch-glib structure corruption.

This bug in Maverick prevents users from editing or deleting contacts in their Ubuntu One address book in Evolution.

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TEST CASE:
Must have a computer setup with an Ubuntu One account already.

1. Open Evolution
2. Create a new contact in the Ubuntu One address book
3. Edit the contact in the Ubuntu One address book and try to save it

Expected result: Contact is saved in Evolution without any error

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

Upon removal the contact, here's what json is sent:
{ "_id" : "e83e2abe76e13bdec26018af040002ec",
   "_rev" : "1-df54e6c906fe01587069554aba329163",
   "record_type" : "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch/contact",
   "title" : "",
   "first_name" : "Beebo",
   "middle_name" : "",
   "last_name" : "",
   "suffix" : "",
   "nick_name" : "",
   "spouse_name" : "",
   "job_title" : "",
   "manager_name" : "",
   "assistant_name" : "",
   "notes" : "",
   "P\xc9S\x02" : null
}

But when contact is successfully modified, then the following is stored:
{
  "_id":"e83e2abe76e13bdec26018af040002ec",
  "_rev":"2-ec9839adb6945e15ec8eb01da8fe9be2",
  "record_type":"http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch/contact",
  "title":"",
  "first_name":"Beebo",
  "middle_name":"",
  "last_name":"",
  "suffix":"",
  "nick_name":"omg",
  "spouse_name":"",
  "job_title":"",
  "manager_name":"",
  "assistant_name":"",
  "notes":"",
  "application_annotations":{"\u00105E\u0002":null}
}

With broken application_annotations node. I believe this has something to do with couchdb-glib.

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

The attempt to run test-couchdb-glib ends up with the following on Maverick:

Connecting to Couchdb at http://ErOGVLVdJw:SianblfwnC@127.0.0.1:37841
/testcouchdbglib/TestArrayField: OK
/testcouchdbglib/TestStructField: OK
/testcouchdbglib/ListDatabases: Segmentation fault

due to code in COUCHDB_IS_DOCUMENT macro accessing some nonexisting location.

The code also creates invalid json during json_generator_to_data serialization in case CouchdbDocument was previously parsed by couchdb-glib. An attempt to serialize "indent" member is performed, which raises json-CRITICAL node != null assertion and the testcase aborts. I suppose something around the attempt to serialize members that are not in the document at all may have something to do with that.

[Lee W. Schreiter (lee-schreiter)]

New to Evolution and have three blank contacts that appear that cannot be deleted. Ubuntu Desktop x386 10.10.

[Charles Pratt (cpratt)]

Just started using Evolution, patched earlier today. Issue showing up for me as well, three empty contacts plus my one test contact, errors trying to delete any of them.

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

I committed a fix to couchdb-glib a couple of weeks ago, that should be in the nightly packages, so please test those and let us know if it already happens

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

How do we get a this nightly package ?

[Mauricio Pretto (pretto)]

That's awesome news Rodrigo, can wait to get this working !
is this patch for 10.10 and 11.04?
Thanks!

[Mauricio Pretto (pretto)]

FYI the package is available on the ppa ppa:ubuntuone/nightlies

[Mauricio Pretto (pretto)]

for me, the problem is not solved

[Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía (samsagax)]

As stated in Ubuntu One Status page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Status), the Contact syncing service is working for Ubuntu 10.10 users. I'm a Maverik user and is not working for me with no error message. Simply is not sending/receiving data.

[Martin G Miller (mgmiller)]

Using Maverick 64 bit. I can make a new contact, but as soon as I try to change it, I get the error message above. Also, the couch db is slow to show up when I select contacts. I have to click on it a few times before my contacts show up.

[Mauricio Pretto (pretto)]

does this applies to natty branch also?

[David Ayers (ayers)]

I just installed natty beta 1 and registered with ubuntuone...

Sync is not working correctly instead of syncing 4 large files they were deleted and a conflict marker was left on the computer from which they were originally copied from.

Evolution does not show the couchdb entry.

So I cannot test this with natty.
/me goes off reconstructing his files from a backup.

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

David, could you please archive the logs from ~/.cache/ubuntuone/log and send them to <email address hidden> so we could find out why the files were removed.

Regarding the couchdb entry - could you please check whether evolution-couchdb package is installed?

[David Ayers (ayers)]

Hello Roman, thanks for your feedback. I sent both the logs of my main computer and of the natty VM to u1-support@.

Concerning the couchdb entry. evelution-couchdb was not installed! ( thought it would be installed when I configured UbuntuOne and I opted into the extra syncing option... but I guess I have to install it explicitly).

Yet I can confirm that I can add and edit a contact from Natty! Thanks!

[Alessio Bolognino (themolok)]

Is this supposed to be fixed? Because I'm using Natty fully upgraded and I still can't delete contacts.

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

for me fixed