Crashes with "python" text in journal files

[Malcolm Maynard]

It looks like other people are having trouble with this one too. RedNotebook would close as soon as I started it. If I deleted the ~/.rednotebook directory, then it would run. But when I tried opening one of my regular journals it crashed again.

I checked the ~/.rednotebook/rednotebook.log file and found out that the app was crashing when any of the TXT files in the journal contained "!!python/unicode ".

I don't know about anyone else, but all the files I had with this "!!python/unicode " business were from 2011 or earlier. And it was most of those older files, but not all of them. I then used the gedit editor to replace all instances of "!!python/unicode " with a null string (""). It took a while because I had to check every single TXT file, and I've been using RedNotebook for some time for different topical journals.

Anyway... Once I had removed ALL instances of "!!python/unicode " from each TXT file, RedNotebook then worked just fine for those directories that were crashing.

I hope that helps someone out there. I have no idea why or how this problem began, though.

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Thanks. Which version are you using? Daily ppa?
Am 22.03.2013 06:35 schrieb "Malcolm Maynard" <email address hidden>:

> Public bug reported:
>
> It looks like other people are having trouble with this one too.
> RedNotebook would close as soon as I started it. If I deleted the
> ~/.rednotebook directory, then it would run. But when I tried opening
> one of my regular journals it crashed again.
>
> I checked the ~/.rednotebook/rednotebook.log file and found out that the
> app was crashing when any of the TXT files in the journal contained
> "!!python/unicode ".
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but all the files I had with this
> "!!python/unicode " business were from 2011 or earlier. And it was most
> of those older files, but not all of them. I then used the gedit editor
> to replace all instances of "!!python/unicode " with a null string ("").
> It took a while because I had to check every single TXT file, and I've
> been using RedNotebook for some time for different topical journals.
>
> Anyway... Once I had removed ALL instances of "!!python/unicode " from
> each TXT file, RedNotebook then worked just fine for those directories
> that were crashing.
>
> I hope that helps someone out there. I have no idea why or how this
> problem began, though.
>
> ** Affects: rednotebook
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
> RedNotebook.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1158642
>
> Title:
> Crashes with "python" text in journal files
>
> Status in RedNotebook - A Desktop Journal:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> It looks like other people are having trouble with this one too.
> RedNotebook would close as soon as I started it. If I deleted the
> ~/.rednotebook directory, then it would run. But when I tried opening
> one of my regular journals it crashed again.
>
> I checked the ~/.rednotebook/rednotebook.log file and found out that
> the app was crashing when any of the TXT files in the journal
> contained "!!python/unicode ".
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but all the files I had with this
> "!!python/unicode " business were from 2011 or earlier. And it was
> most of those older files, but not all of them. I then used the gedit
> editor to replace all instances of "!!python/unicode " with a null
> string (""). It took a while because I had to check every single TXT
> file, and I've been using RedNotebook for some time for different
> topical journals.
>
> Anyway... Once I had removed ALL instances of "!!python/unicode "
> from each TXT file, RedNotebook then worked just fine for those
> directories that were crashing.
>
> I hope that helps someone out there. I have no idea why or how this
> problem began, though.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/rednotebook/+bug/1158642/+subscriptions
>

[Malcolm Maynard (malkies-mynaardt)]

You're Welcome!

I'm using the Daily PPA. I just had a quick look; it's version 1.7.1.

This problem just happened yesterday. It just seemed to happen on my
desktop computer, running on Xubuntu, but not my laptop or netbook,
which are both running on Lubuntu.

On 13-03-22 12:43 AM, Jendrik Seipp wrote:
> Thanks. Which version are you using? Daily ppa?
> Am 22.03.2013 06:35 schrieb "Malcolm Maynard" <email address hidden>:
>
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> It looks like other people are having trouble with this one too.
>> RedNotebook would close as soon as I started it. If I deleted the
>> ~/.rednotebook directory, then it would run. But when I tried opening
>> one of my regular journals it crashed again.
>>
>> I checked the ~/.rednotebook/rednotebook.log file and found out that the
>> app was crashing when any of the TXT files in the journal contained
>> "!!python/unicode ".
>>
>> I don't know about anyone else, but all the files I had with this
>> "!!python/unicode " business were from 2011 or earlier. And it was most
>> of those older files, but not all of them. I then used the gedit editor
>> to replace all instances of "!!python/unicode " with a null string ("").
>> It took a while because I had to check every single TXT file, and I've
>> been using RedNotebook for some time for different topical journals.
>>
>> Anyway... Once I had removed ALL instances of "!!python/unicode " from
>> each TXT file, RedNotebook then worked just fine for those directories
>> that were crashing.
>>
>> I hope that helps someone out there. I have no idea why or how this
>> problem began, though.
>>
>> ** Affects: rednotebook
>> Importance: Undecided
>> Status: New
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
>> RedNotebook.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1158642
>>
>> Title:
>> Crashes with "python" text in journal files
>>
>> Status in RedNotebook - A Desktop Journal:
>> New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> It looks like other people are having trouble with this one too.
>> RedNotebook would close as soon as I started it. If I deleted the
>> ~/.rednotebook directory, then it would run. But when I tried opening
>> one of my regular journals it crashed again.
>>
>> I checked the ~/.rednotebook/rednotebook.log file and found out that
>> the app was crashing when any of the TXT files in the journal
>> contained "!!python/unicode ".
>>
>> I don't know about anyone else, but all the files I had with this
>> "!!python/unicode " business were from 2011 or earlier. And it was
>> most of those older files, but not all of them. I then used the gedit
>> editor to replace all instances of "!!python/unicode " with a null
>> string (""). It took a while because I had to check every single TXT
>> file, and I've been using RedNotebook for some time for different
>> topical journals.
>>
>> Anyway... Once I had removed ALL instances of "!!python/unicode "
>> from each TXT file, RedNotebook then worked just fine for those
>> directories that were crashing.
>>
>> I hope that helps someone out there. I have no idea why or how this
>> problem began, th...

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Thanks for the report, it seems you just saved a lot of people lots of
trouble, thanks! I introduced a change some days ago that will prevent
people from being able to open their journals. Thanks to you I can
revert it, before the version is released.

[Malcolm Maynard (malkies-mynaardt)]

No problem!

I was surprised I was able to find the problem. But the contents of
*~/.rednotebook/rednotebook.log* helped me figure out the problem.

Besides, a lot of other people have helped me with their fixes, so I
guess it was my turn to solve at least one app problem!

On 13-03-22 07:30 AM, Jendrik Seipp wrote:
> Thanks for the report, it seems you just saved a lot of people lots of
> trouble, thanks! I introduced a change some days ago that will prevent
> people from being able to open their journals. Thanks to you I can
> revert it, before the version is released.
>
>
> ** Changed in: rednotebook
> Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
>
> ** Changed in: rednotebook
> Importance: Undecided => Critical
>
> ** Changed in: rednotebook
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)
>

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