I tested 0.8.1-1 from oneiric with no change to the issue. However I caught this comment below from a realted bug that seems like a duplicate, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/762187/comments/15, and was able to resolve my issue.
The problem is that libgdata pre-0.8.2 does not handle Google contact custom fields that do not have a label. The equivalent output in libgdata debug looks like this <gContact:userDefinedField key='' value='Director'/> An example of such a field with an empty label is shown in the attached screenshot. At Google.com/contacts where the screenshot was taken, it can be easily edited to contain a label, or removed - both of which will solve the issue. You can find the contacts with unlabelled custom fields by searching the libgdata debug output (start the factory with ~$LIBGDATA_FORCE_HTTP=1 LIBGDATA_DEBUG=3 /usr/lib/evolution/e-addressbook-factory) for the following string. userDefinedField key='' It is worth noting that I have many custom fields with the label defined. These are all fine to be left unchanged, and may look similar to the following with a label and value defined: <gContact:userDefinedField key='Custom1' value='someb...@gmail.com'/> Thanks Michael Seifert for figuring this out for us. I had three of these to remove in my 1800+ contacts, and each time I had to shutdown evolution, fix the data, kill the e-addressbook-factory process and restart with the debug output to find the next occurance. Only after I removed them all, and completely restarted evolution did everything work fine. And it has since. Autocomplete, etc. All great. Really happy about this. I've left the 0.8.1 libgdata in place for now, but per the comments linked above, the 0.8.0 shipping with Natty should be fine. This should no longer be an issue by default when 0.8.2 ships per the upstream bug and commits. I am re-linking this upstream bug for easy patch extraction. ** Attachment added: "Custom Field without a label (key)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/755043/+attachment/2154043/+files/Google_Contacts.png ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #648058 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648058 ** Changed in: evolution-data-server Importance: High => Unknown ** Changed in: evolution-data-server Status: Incomplete => Unknown ** Changed in: evolution-data-server Remote watch: GNOME Bug Tracker #647067 => GNOME Bug Tracker #648058 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/755043 Title: Unable to open addressbook error when loading Google Contacts -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
