I came across this bug while trying to build Diodon from source. If I understood correctly, running sudo ./waf install, installs Diodon to the specified prefix and also executes a build test.
>From the waf install log: [131/131] utest: _build_/tests/diodon-test This spawns a new instance of zeitgeist as root (probably due to it being ran with sudo), which then causes the Zeitgeist database to lock. In order to recover from that state, the root instances of zeitgeist-datahub and zeitgeist-daemon need to be killed and zeitgeist-daemon --replace to be ran as the normal user. In order for it to be avoided, --skiptests needs to be appended to waf, so that it doesn't attempt to run the test as root (eg. sudo ./waf install --skiptests). A good solution, as mentioned previously in this report, is to prevent Diodon (and the test) from running as root, or at least disallow attempts to access Zeitgeist as root. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1405525 Title: database is locked error prevents Diodon from adding items to or clearing history To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/diodon/+bug/1405525/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
