can't delete contacts in the couchDB adressbook in evolution

[Loïc Alejandro]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

I synced my contacts to U1 via evolution.
Now, each time I try to delete a contact in the couchDB adressbook, it says "deleting failed, other error".

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

When I activate the couchDB adressbook, if I click on the couchDB adressbook it says that the evolution adressBook crashed unexpectedly. And after some minutes evolution freezes.

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

Loic,
Sorry to hear U1 is not working as expected. WE would greatly appreciate if you could help us further debug this issue. Please try the following. Open a Terminal and run this command:

evolution --force-shutdown

then run this command:

/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28

Then, start Evolution again and try to open again the CouchDB addressbook. If it fails, have a look at the output on the terminal, it should have some hints as to why it failed. Please post that output here.

thank you,
duanedesign

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

I don't have any evolution-data-server-2.28 in /usr/lib/evolution/

[Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)]

Ok, then, you have a newest evolution, so run /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory instead

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

The output :
lalejand@lalejand-laptop:~$ /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendExchangeEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendExchangeTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendWeatherEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendLDAPFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendVCFFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendFileFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendFileTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendFileEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendFileJournalFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendContactsEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendGroupwiseFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendExchangeFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendGalFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGoogleTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGoogleEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendHttpTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendHttpEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendHttpMemosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendCouchDBFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendCalDAVEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendCalDAVTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendCalDAVMemosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendGoogleFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendWebdavFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseJournalFactory'
Server is up and running...
book_view file uref
**
Json:ERROR:./json-scanner.c:895:json_scanner_get_unichar: assertion failed: (g_unichar_validate (uchar))
Abandon (core dumped)

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

Maybe my problem is linked to that : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/676297

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

I am unable to right-click and delete blank contacts and a contact that begins with '?' from evolution.

(e-addressbook-factory:5811): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(e-addressbook-factory:5811): Json-CRITICAL **: json_node_get_node_type: assertion `node != NULL' failed
** (e-addressbook-factory:5811): DEBUG: Error deleting document: Bad Request

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

In the replication log file, I have this kind of feedback :

2010-11-19 17:31:10,762 DEBUG started replicating
2010-11-19 17:31:10,763 INFO Connecting to http://localhost:42210/.
2010-11-19 17:31:10,764 ERROR replication of discovered hosts aborted
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/replication.py", line 81, in do_all_replication
    dbus_io.get_seen_paired_hosts(uri=local_uri):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/dbus_io.py", line 139, in get_seen_paired_hosts
    pairing_encyclopedia = couchdb_io.get_all_known_pairings(uri=uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/couchdb_io.py", line 193, in get_all_known_pairings
    db = _get_db("management", uri=uri, ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/pair/couchdb_pairing/couchdb_io.py", line 62, in _get_db
    return server.CouchDatabase(name, create=create, uri=uri, ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 56, in __init__
    server_class=server_class, oauth_tokens=oauth_tokens, ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 155, in __init__
    self._reconnect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 64, in _reconnect
    super(CouchDatabase, self)._reconnect(uri=uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 187, in _reconnect
    if self._database_name not in self._server:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 124, in __contains__
    self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 981, in head
    return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1014, in _request
    resp, data = _make_request()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1009, in _make_request
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1129, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 901, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 871, in _conn_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 988, in getresponse
    method=self._method)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 330, in __init__
    self.fp = sock.makefile('rb', 0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'
2010-11-19 17:31:10,766 INFO Connecting to http://localhost:42210/.
2010-11-19 17:31:10,768 ERROR replication of services aborted
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/replication.py", line 131, in do_all_replication
    couchdb_io.get_static_paired_hosts(port=local_port):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dis...

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

Is there a workaround I can do to get my contact sync work ?
Or some other tests to help resolve the problem ?

[Dark7Man (7darkman)]

I'm having this issue too

as well as having problems like - editing CouchDB or Ubuntu One Contacts at all and syncing with Ubuntu One!

[Loïc Alejandro (loic-alejandro)]

When I try to delete a contact : e-addressbook-factiry says :
(e-addressbook-factory:21930): Json-CRITICAL **: json_object_get_string_member: assertion `node != NULL' failed

(e-addressbook-factory:21930): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

(e-addressbook-factory:21930): Json-CRITICAL **: json_node_get_node_type: assertion `node != NULL' failed
** (e-addressbook-factory:21930): DEBUG: Error deleting document: Bad Request

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

Marking this as a duplicate of LP:673568 since the reason why contacts cannot be edited or deleted is the corrupted internal structures of the document that is being JSON-encoded via couchdb-glib and then sent to CouchDB. CouchDB does not like invalid keys in the document and returns Bad Request.