Evolution lost Ubuntu One contacts, there still in the Couchdb database though

I've run into an issue that is not identical to yours, but has many similarities:

Contacts not synching bidirectionally between Evolution and U1
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10083548#post10083548

The error dialog in the screenshot you posted above... have seen that a lot. The workaround at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/WhyArentMyContactsSyncing would often (but not always) result in this error appearing consistently; it wasn't untill I used a variation of this, along with rebooting the machine, that I got back to a state where the error is not thrown (although I'm still having the problem where my contacts from U1 don't show up in Evolution's CouchDB addressbook)

Can you please quit evolution, and, on a terminal, run:

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

and then run evolution again and try opening the Ubuntu One addressbook? Then, please copy all output in the terminal and paste it here

Thanks for the response & recommendation Rodrigo.

>> Can you please quit evolution, and, on a terminal, run:
>> $ /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory
>> and then run evolution again and try opening the Ubuntu One addressbook? Then, please copy all output in the terminal and paste it here

This results in very many of the following:

(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Couchdb-GLib-CRITICAL **: couchdb_document_contact_get_im_addresses: assertion `COUCHDB_IS_DOCUMENT_CONTACT (document)' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from `CouchdbDocument' to `CouchdbDocumentContact'
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Couchdb-GLib-CRITICAL **: couchdb_document_contact_get_birth_date: assertion `COUCHDB_IS_DOCUMENT_CONTACT (document)' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from `CouchdbDocument' to `CouchdbDocumentContact'
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Couchdb-GLib-CRITICAL **: couchdb_document_contact_get_wedding_date: assertion `COUCHDB_IS_DOCUMENT_CONTACT (document)' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Json-CRITICAL **: json_object_get_object_member: assertion `node != NULL' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Json-CRITICAL **: json_object_get_object_member: assertion `node != NULL' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Json-CRITICAL **: json_object_get_object_member: assertion `node != NULL' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Json-CRITICAL **: json_object_get_object_member: assertion `node != NULL' failed
(e-addressbook-factory:24408): Json-CRITICAL **: json_object_get_object_member: assertion `node != NULL' failed

Also, since my original comment, my contacts from The Cloud did finally show up in Evolution, but there are still indications of a problem and/or unexpected behavior. Details here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10087550&postcount=2

I'm not sure that I'm doing this right. Are my terminal commands right?

nate@universal-mechanism:~$ /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory
bash: /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory: No such file or directory
nate@universal-mechanism:~$ evolution
** (evolution:9369): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s
** (evolution:9369): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution

Rick: hmm, those warnings are weird, since that part of the code should not be reached if the object is not a CouchdbDocumentContact, so, what version of evo-couchdb and couchdb-glib do you have?

Nathaniel: what version of evolution-data-server do you have? Maybe you have /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28 instead?

nate@universal-mechanism:~$ /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28
evolution-data-server-Message: Starting server
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendFileFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendWebdavFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGoogleTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGoogleEventsFactory'
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 `ECalBackendContactsEventsFactory'
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 `EBookBackendGroupwiseFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendLDAPFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendWeatherEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseJournalFactory'
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 `EBookBackendVCFFactory'
in server_log_handler
evolution-data-server-Message: Server up and running
impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_BookFactory_getBook
 + couchdb://127.0.0.1
 => 0x1979180
impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Book_open (0x1979180)

Nathaniel, that's all you get?

I re-ran the commands some more to try to get better output. I ran the command 3 times and got 3 different outputs. I'll add them as text attachments.

/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28 Number 1

/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28 Number 2

/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28 Number 3

This time I got a Segmentation fault.

nate@universal-mechanism:~$ evolution --force-shutdown
nate@universal-mechanism:~$ /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-2.28
evolution-data-server-Message: Starting server
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendFileFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendWebdavFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGoogleTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGoogleEventsFactory'
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 `ECalBackendContactsEventsFactory'
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 `EBookBackendGroupwiseFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `EBookBackendLDAPFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendWeatherEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseTodosFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseEventsFactory'
e-data-server-Message: adding type `ECalBackendGroupwiseJournalFactory'
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 `EBookBackendVCFFactory'
in server_log_handler
evolution-data-server-Message: Server up and running
impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_BookFactory_getBook
 + file:///home/nate/.evolution/addressbook/local/system
 => 0x21caf60
impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Book_open (0x21caf60)

(process:13706): libedata-book-WARNING **: impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Book_getBookView ((contains "x-evolution-any-field" ""))

e_data_book_respond_get_book_view
book_view file uref
impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_BookFactory_getBook
 + couchdb://127.0.0.1
 => 0x21aed20
impl_GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_Book_open (0x21aed20)
in server_log_handler
Segmentation fault

@Rodrigo:

>> Rodrigo Moya wrote on 2010-11-15:
>> Rick: hmm, those warnings are weird, since that part of the code should not be reached if the object is not a CouchdbDocumentContact, so, what version of evo-couchdb and couchdb-glib do you have?

user1@homebase:~$ /usr/bin/couchdb -V
couchdb - Apache CouchDB 1.0.1

user1@homebase:~$ locate couchdb-glib
/usr/lib/libcouchdb-glib-1.0.so.2
/usr/lib/libcouchdb-glib-1.0.so.2.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2
/usr/share/doc/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2/copyright
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcouchdb-glib-1.0-2.shlibs

The json errors were fixed by the last couchdb update on my system (natty). But contacts still don't sync for me.

Ok... found a workaround for my system:

- Close evolution
- killall e-addressbook-factory
- /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook--factory
- Start up evolution again.

...and all ubuntuone addressses will be there until the next reboot.