Zim stuck, killall zim - no process, kill parent python - bug report popup

[Alexey Evstropov]

I distribute my Zim notebooks with Git on a couple of my computers so that I can get my data from everywhere.

Today I pulled an updated repository with a new relatively large (about 7 MB) notebook. In Zim I added it to the notebooks list, but when I tried to open it, Zim stuck. After about 30 minutes I decided that there is no hope and tried to kill it with "killall zim". This returned "no process found". Then I tried:
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ps aux --forest | grep zim
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The output was:
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alexey 14210 0.0 0.3 928696 23312 ? Sl Dec03 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
alexey 14220 0.0 0.5 833260 31660 ? Sl Dec03 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
alexey 14294 0.0 0.9 1120608 57396 ? Sl Dec03 2:15 \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
alexey 9829 0.0 0.0 10680 944 pts/12 S+ 10:42 0:00 \_ grep --color=auto zim
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So I tried "kill 14210", and that throwed me a pop up named "Looks like you found a bug" with the following contents:
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This is zim 0.60
Python version is sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=5, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
Gtk version is (2, 24, 20)
Pygtk version is (2, 24, 0)
Platform is posix
Zim revision is:
  branch: pyzim-trunk
  revision: 672 <email address hidden>
  date: 2013-04-30 19:27:20 +0200

======= Traceback =======
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/widgets.py", line 3012, in do_response
    destroy = self.do_response_ok()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/notebookdialog.py", line 348, in do_response_ok
    self.callback(self.result)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py", line 1116, in open_notebook
    notebook = zim.ipc.ServerProxy().get_notebook(notebook)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 805, in get_notebook
    return self.get_proxy(RemoteObject(self._notebookklass, uri), open)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 787, in get_proxy
    self.init_object(remoteobject)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 753, in call
    re = conn.recv()
EOFError:
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After "kill 14210" all stucked Zim windows disappeared, but "ps aux --forest" still gave me:
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alexey 14220 0.0 0.5 833260 31660 ? Sl Dec03 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
alexey 14294 0.0 0.9 1120936 57408 ? Sl Dec03 2:15 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
alexey 10385 0.0 0.0 10680 940 pts/12 S+ 11:08 0:00 \_ grep --color=auto zim
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Just in case I killed 14220 and 14294 without any consequent warnings. After that opening Zim and the new notebook was just OK.

Zim version: 0.60 (Ubuntu repository)

System:
cat /etc/*-release
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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=saucy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="13.10, Saucy Salamander"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 13.10"
VERSION_ID="13.10"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
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uname -a
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Linux version 3.11.0-13-generic (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.8.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Will look into the code recovering processes.

What might help for this kind of cases is to first run "zim --index" after
pulling in the repository. That way the index is rebuilt, and the GUI will
be more responsive when first opening the notebook.

-- Jaap

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alexey Evstropov <email address hidden>wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I distribute my Zim notebooks with Git on a couple of my computers so
> that I can get my data from everywhere.
>
> Today I pulled an updated repository with a new relatively large (about 7
> MB) notebook. In Zim I added it to the notebooks list, but when I tried to
> open it, Zim stuck. After about 30 minutes I decided that there is no hope
> and tried to kill it with "killall zim". This returned "no process found".
> Then I tried:
> -------------------------------------
> ps aux --forest | grep zim
> -------------------------------------
> The output was:
> -------------------------------------
> alexey 14210 0.0 0.3 928696 23312 ? Sl Dec03 0:00
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main
> /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
> alexey 14220 0.0 0.5 833260 31660 ? Sl Dec03 0:00 \_
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main
> /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
> alexey 14294 0.0 0.9 1120608 57396 ? Sl Dec03 2:15 \_
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zim --ipc-server-main
> /tmp/zim-alexey/zim-server-socket 30
> alexey 9829 0.0 0.0 10680 944 pts/12 S+ 10:42 0:00 \_
> grep --color=auto zim
> -------------------------------------
> So I tried "kill 14210", and that throwed me a pop up named "Looks like
> you found a bug" with the following contents:
> -------------------------------------
> This is zim 0.60
> Python version is sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=5,
> releaselevel='final', serial=0)
> Gtk version is (2, 24, 20)
> Pygtk version is (2, 24, 0)
> Platform is posix
> Zim revision is:
> branch: pyzim-trunk
> revision: 672 <email address hidden>
> date: 2013-04-30 19:27:20 +0200
>
> ======= Traceback =======
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/widgets.py", line 3012,
> in do_response
> destroy = self.do_response_ok()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/notebookdialog.py", line
> 348, in do_response_ok
> self.callback(self.result)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py", line 1116,
> in open_notebook
> notebook = zim.ipc.ServerProxy().get_notebook(notebook)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 805, in
> get_notebook
> return self.get_proxy(RemoteObject(self._notebookklass, uri), open)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 787, in
> get_proxy
> self.init_object(remoteobject)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 753, in call
> re = conn.recv()
> EOFError:
> -------------------------------------
> After "kill 14210" all stucked Zim windows disappeared, but "ps aux
> --forest" still gave me:
> -------------------------------------
> alexey 14220 0.0 0.5 833260 31660 ? Sl Dec03 0:00
> /usr/bin/python /usr/...