Beagled is crashing on startup, I've got an automatic report

Also on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10

Another automated crash report, but beagled only crashed once after changing a setting if I remember correctly.

Ubuntu Feisty

I clicked on the new looking glass icon and got the search window up, shortly thereafter (3-4 seconds) I got the beagled crashed message.

another auto crash file from 0.2.14 with a fresh and newly created index (removed .beagle directory to let it reindex since i read the implementation is not set in stone and might change here and there). Do we have an upstream bug (aka does joe shaw and such know about it)

Now we have an upstream bug Thomas : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386746 .

Upstream bug has determined the issue. Recommendation is:

Also, another workaround for now is to rebuild evolution-sharp and then beagle
in feisty so that it picks up the correct versions.

Please see the upstream bug if you want more details.

Ok, so there are bugs here all over the place. :)

(1) There is an Ubuntu bug related to the packaging of evolution-sharp (libevolution-cil 0.11.1+cvs20060516-0ubuntu) which is a CVS version that only partially supported evolution-data-server 1.8. There is an 0.12.0 release out now which properly supports e-d-s 1.8 and which does not explicitly require evolution 2.8.

(2) evolution-sharp 0.11.1 (and CVS up until 0.12.0) had a bug where it determined the major/minor version of evolution at compile-time, and not at runtime. This means that if you had Evolution 2.8 installed and upgraded to 2.9, evolution-sharp would report the wrong version. 0.12.0 fixes this by no longer depending on evolution.

(3) Beagle has a bug in which it determined the major/minor version of evolution at compile-time from evolution-sharp, and not at runtime. This means that even if you somehow fixed evolution-sharp 0.11.1 to work against evo 2.9 and rebuilt it, Beagle would still be broken.

(4) And lastly, Beagle has a bug in which this error is fatal to the running of the daemon. It shouldn't be.

Ok! So the solution simply is: upgrade evolution-sharp (libevolution-cil on Ubuntu) to 0.12.0, taking care of bug (1). I will make the fixes to Beagle for (4). To maintain compatibility with Evolution 2.4 and 2.6, I'm not going to fix (2) or (3); the old status quo will be "good enough" for older distributions.

Mark as confirmed since 5 people have the same bug and one upstream developer confirmed it.

And because we need to fix our packages (see comment 8).

evolution-sharp 0.12.1, which supports e-d-s 1.8.x and 1.9.0 through 1.9.4 is available now from here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/evolution-sharp/0.12/

I strongly recommend updating to that rather than patching 0.12.0.

Please try in feisty, upstream is marked as fixed.

Beagle : 0.2.9
Gnome : 2.16.1
Kernel version : 2.6.17
Ubuntu distrib : Edgy ( Alinex 2.0 )