Alfred hangs on the most Big Sur beta 6 - potentially contacts related?

[nathanntg]

Hi all! Just reporting this in case it helps others. After installing the latest beta (6), Afred was hanging for me. When I sampled the process, it seemed to be part of the `[AlfredContactsQuerier requestAddressBookAccess]` logic.

 

I was able to work around the issue by disabling Alfred's access to the contacts database (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > "Privacy" tab > Contacts).

 

Mentioning it here in case it helps with debugging the issue and in case it helps others work around it in the meantime. (I know I would be lost without Alfred.)

 

Thanks!

N

[Andrew]

@nathanntg I haven't been able to reproduce this on Beta 6 - could you please try temporarily creating a new user account, switching to that user, and seeing if you get the hang there?

[jm_123]

Same problem with the public beta 3. The workaround (by disabling Alfred's access to the contacts database) works well! Thanks!

[felixbuenemann]

I have the same problem on macOS 11.0.1 (20B28) with Alfred 4.2.1b1186.

 

As soon as I disable contacts access for Alfred 4, kill the Alfred process and restart it it works normally. If I don't, the Alfred process is running in the background, but all interactions or tries to open the gui fail.

[felixbuenemann]

Btw. I have another Mac with the same macOS and Alfred versions were the problem does not occur. Both systems are using preference sync through Dropbox, so they have the same Alfred configuration.