Comment 32 for bug 727370

On my computer it is sufficient to do a

$ killall -9 e-addressbook-factory
$ /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory

and to wait about 10 seconds prior to starting evolution to be able to see the contacts.
But I have to repeat these steps every time i log in to my computer.

Since the above commands won't help if the network connection isn't running it somehow looks like something is starting e-addressbook-factory before the network is up and e-addressbook-factory won't recover from this;
Any try to copy all contacts from the couchdb to the local addressbook will still result in a timeout , though.