By now all you should be getting for error messages should be "Cannot connect to service's server", if it shows up. Is Evolution marked as working online? (Make sure the Work Offline checkbox is unchecked in the File menu).
Past that, we'll need to completely stop evolution (In a terminal: evolution --force-shutdown ; killall -9 e-addressbook-factory), then start the addressbook factory in debug mode (again, in a terminal): LIBGDATA_DEBUG=1 /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory --debug And start evolution again. Carefully check the messages that show up in the terminal window running e-addressbook-factory, the last message or so (or one before a big bunch of data), should contain the reason why the addressbook fails to start properly. ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/762187 Title: recurring 10 min invalid query dialog box from google contact sync -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs