To replicate this 1) Backup the activity.sqlite DB 2) restart the daemon 3) while its saying "DEBUG:zeitgeist.sql:Updating sql schema" kill the daemon
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Seif Lotfy <660...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote: > I manged to replicate this manually creating an invalid structure. Thank > you for the bug. We are on it. > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist > Status: Incomplete => Confirmed > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist > Assignee: (unassigned) => Seif Lotfy (seif) > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist > Milestone: None => 0.7.0 > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist > Status: Confirmed => Triaged > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist > Importance: Undecided => Low > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist (Ubuntu) > Assignee: (unassigned) => Seif Lotfy (seif) > > ** Changed in: zeitgeist (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Confirmed > > -- > zeitgeist fails to run if its database structure is not complete > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660307 > You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee. > > Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Triaged > Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: zeitgeist > > If zeitgeist's database (~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite) is > incomplete, eg missing the events table, zeitgeist fails to run. And because > the GUI does not report that zeitgeist faiiled to run, applications that > rely on zeitgeist simply fail to work without any relevant reason given. > > I ran into this problem on upgrading an installation from Ubuntu 10.04 to > 10.10. After the upgrade, the dockbarx applet failed to run. The error > message from gnome-panel just said it had failed to run, and > .xsession-errors said the child process did not report any specific error. > Running in debug mode (ie with the command "dockbarx-factory.py > run-in-window") gave: > > ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on > :1.134:/org/gnome/zeitgeist/log/activity: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout > by message bus) > DEBUG:dbus.proxies:Executing introspect queue due to error > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/dockbarx_factory.py", line 26, in <module> > import dockbarx.dockbar > ... > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ > **keywords) > File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in > call_blocking > message, timeout) > dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: > The name :1.134 was not provided by any .service files > > The error appeared to be a dbus error, but in fact was a problem with > zeitgeist, which was failing to run because its database apparently was > corrupted during the upgrade. I fixed the problem (eventually) by deleting > the zeitgeist database file and restarting the zeitgeist-daemon manually. > > > What I would expect to happen is: > > 1) The GUI should report that zeitgeist has failed to run. > > 2) Better yet, zeitgeist could create the necessary tables if its database > is invalid or perhaps backup the old database and create a new one so it can > run properly. > > It would of course be nice if dockbarx reported better error information, > but since there are other applications that depend on zeitgeist, it would be > good if zeitgeist could recover from this situation. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 > Package: zeitgeist 0.5.2-0ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4 > Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 > Architecture: i386 > Date: Thu Oct 14 11:52:41 2010 > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 > (20100602.2) > PackageArchitecture: all > ProcEnviron: > PATH=(custom, no user) > LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: zeitgeist > > > -- This is me doing some advertisement for my blog http://seilo.geekyogre.com -- zeitgeist fails to run if its database structure is not complete https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660307 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
