[Evolution] Evolution dies when I try to add a contact

[Tim Wescott <tim wescottdesign com>]

I think my contacts list is corrupted.  It's been messy since forever --
I carried it forward through several revisions of Thunderbird, then
exported it & imported it to Evolution when I switched, and then carried
it forward through several revisions of Evolution.

But now things are really bad:

I'm trying to add a contact to my mailing list.  When I hit "OK",
Evolution closes.

When I run Evolution from the command line, it sends up the following
smoke signal:

(evolution:2696): evolution-util-ERROR **:
eab-contact-duplicate-detected.ui: Invalid type function on line 88:
'eab_contact_display_get_type'
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Is it obvious what the problem is?  Is there something I can do about
this?

Thanks.

-- 

Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
Phone: 503.631.7815
Cell:  503.349.8432