Unable to connect to Zeitgeist: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.zeitgeist.Engine: Timeout was reached

[Mark Jones]

For about a week, on my Ubuntu 22.04, Diodon is starting but is not showing in the indicator panel and thus not providing access to the clipboard functionality.

When starting Diodon via the command line the following errors are displayed:

(diodon:14460): WARNING **: 13:15:42.521: zeitgeist-clipboard-storage.vala:84: Could not connect to blacklist interface: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.zeitgeist.Engine: Timeout was reached **

(diodon:14460): CRITICAL **: 13:16:07.529: log.vala:102: Unable to connect to Zeitgeist: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.zeitgeist.Engine: Timeout was reached

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

Most likely a corrupted Zeitgeist database.

I recommend doing the following on the terminal:

killall diodon
killall zeitgeist-daemon
mv ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.old.sqlite
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all diodon

So what this does is closing the Diodon and Zeitgeist service, moving the database away and then starting Diodon in debug mode, so you can see what happens. Hope this helps.

[Mark Jones (mt3ch)]

Thanks for the advice. I did not get the opportunity to test it because Diodon started working again from yesterday. I expect your advice would have worked well and I will keep it in mind for any future problems. Perhaps this was not a bug in Diodon after all. :-)

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

Thanks. Glad it is working again. Marking issue as closed then.