Wow! Nicolai! Thank you so much you saved me like an hour of my life with that response. I just searched for the name: from the desktop I typed A and it loaded up nicely.

Any idea if I should remove extended-contacts-search plugin

Yes remove the extended-contact search, or remember to never
change to the "most recent" view. It is a bug in extended-contact search.

nicolai

Alright I removed it and all is well so far, Thank You everyone

hi nicolai.
i have this bug too but without any "extended-contact search" app installed.
if i go on most recent my contact app stops working and i have to close it via "close task" from the power menu.
do you know whats happening?
thanks

So I was going to start a new thread, but hopefully since this is on topic I might find help here.

Just the other day when trying to add a new address to my contacts the app would crash giving me the "internal error application "contacts" close" alert. It mainly crashes when I want to change or add any address field, but sometime other fields too. I'm thinking that a file got corrupt or perhaps the permission some place got screwed up.

So, I search and found a few threads that seem to all say remove extended-contacts-search. Which I had and then removed, but the problem is still there.

So what I'm looking for is a file to replace that may have been corrupted.

I tried a few things:
1) many restarts
2) restarts after removing ext-cont-srch.
3) reinstalling and then uninstalling ext-cont-srch and then restarting
4) restoring of older built in backup comm & calendar
5) tried run this command, gconftool -s /apps/osso-addressbook/contacts-mode 0 -t int.
6) replacing the /home/user/osso-abook folder with an older copy.
7) Try erasing all contacts and re sync them back in.

So what have I missed?

I'm just about to reflash the system and then restore, but of course I don't want to restore the problem if it's in the backup. was looking in here too, http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...dress_Book_API

I've never had to reflash, with all the mod I've done (mostly conservative mods. And didn't have any problems beside 2 sys reboots under stress (not common for my phone) and some problems with /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive(making more space), which I fixed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

X

You could install syslog:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/.../maemo5/syslog
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...5#Installation
Maybe it gives some hints whats going wrong.

Nicolai

Hey nicolai,

Thanks for reply to my post, I really appreciate the hard work and great app you've made for maemo. I'm using your Cal home wig & ProX! Great stuff

Funny enough I already had sysklogd installed and running with a 4mb file already ...oops. Just have not got around to actually looking at the log. So thanks for reminding me to use it ..

This is what I have:
So glib has something to do with it? GLib - g_ascii_strncasecmp, GLib - g_utf8_casefold

Any idea what these do or how to fix it.

X

edit: hmm, if it has something to do with the utf8, that could mean that I created the locale-archive wrong.

SOLVED!!!
So it look like it was in fact the locale-archive. I had made a 1.4mb ver of the 22mb file and was having problems including utf8 in when run locale-gen, so I figure it was okay since it made the file.

So always keep a back up and document your mods. I will try to get my file back to 1.4mb later again this weekend. Hope this helps someone else too. cheers

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this happended to me last Saturday;


Are you sure about this? Thing is my locale-archive is also custom generated, There was no error this time, i also did this shrinking some time ago (including more tables this time) also without any errors.

Thing is; i tried to import an older .vcf (1.2) generated some time ago using OPMS2 (Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian). Copied it via BT, the N900 offered to open and import it in the same step, but all i got was an error. Unfortunately i cannot remember the exact message.

Anyway, loading contacts and viewieng entries works, but editing contacts that already have address records or adding address records to contects without them leads to the above error message(s) in the syslog.

What i tried is, installed db4.7-util from here:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/armel...-util/download

and checked the DB using

which resulted in no output. As always in *NIX, no message means a good message, so i assume the DB itself is ok.

Second that. If i only would have been warned that VCF import can actually lead to such hassles...

EDIT. fix'd - reason: "faulty" locale-archive...

I dunno if the order of entries in this file matters, but the faulty one read:

...while the one that's now working one omits codepage CP1252:

Grrr. And this still applies too.

Anyway, the knowledge about the existence of 'db4.7_dump' is helpful in every regard!

Glad you figured it out. Didn't know about db4.7-util, that seems to have been a good idea. My phone was running fine with the sm Loc-Arc, then seems out of no where it started happening. But it could have been that I just didn't notice till I added a contact address.

I've imported many .vcf file without a problem, but perhaps the format was wrong or it got corrupted during the import.

BTW, I had to reinstall the org local set and then trim that down. I now have both sm & lrg locals backup..

cheers

x