Evolution contacts crashes upon first access

[Martijn Brinkers]

Binary package hint: evolution-data-server

When I startup evolution and open my contacts I get the message

"The Evolution address book has quit unexpectedly.
Your contacts for file:///home/martijn/.evolution/addressbook/local/system will not be available until Evolution is restarted."

If I restart evolution the contacts seem to be accessible but when I try
to send an email there is no contact list in the "select contacts"
dialog (shown when I press the To).

I have added a backtrace.

My evolution version is 2.24.3-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. When did this start happening? Has it ever worked with this version of evolution-data-server? Did you recently migrate from an older version of evolution-data-server (ie, upgrade from Hardy)?

Thanks

[Martijn Brinkers (m-brinkers)]

It's probably caused by a lot of factors :)

I had a system crash with Ubuntu 8.10 and reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10. I did however managed to make a copy of the .evolution directory which I tried to restore. Somehow evolution kept on complaining that the database was corrupt so I removed all indexes and folders.db. Evolution reindex the mbox files and regenerated a folders.db. There are still a few problems left like crashing contacts.
The evolution data was imported previously from an machine upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10.

before my system crash evolution was working fine

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you report this at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ against evolution-data-server, where someone there might be able to help you?

Thanks

[Martijn Brinkers (m-brinkers)]

Link to bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573278

Thanks

[Martijn Brinkers (m-brinkers)]

It seems to be caused by this bug

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561052