This bug was fixed in the package zeitgeist - 0.8.1-1ubuntu1
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zeitgeist (0.8.1-1ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low
* Merge with debian, remaining change:
- Build-dep on raptor2-utils instead of raptor-utils
zeitgeist (0.8.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release. Some of the changes are:
- Database backup before attempting schema upgrades (LP: #660307).
- Ensure the engine doesn't attempt to close twice in a row (LP: #793714).
- Improve the Python API's behavior when Zeitgeist is restarted.
- Added support for registering custom Event and Subject subclasses with
ZeitgeistClient (LP: #799199), and added some new API methods.
* debian/control:
- Fix typo in the description (hold -> held). Thanks to Travis Reddell.
-- Didier Roche <didro...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:49:45 +0200
** Changed in: zeitgeist (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
zeitgeist fails to run if its database structure is not complete
Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
Fix Committed
Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
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
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