Tomboy note XML broken by U1 online editor, sync failure

[Sergey]

Binary package hint: tomboy

my ~/.config/tomboy/tomboy.log

20.11.2010 21:55:33 [INFO]: Initializing Mono.Addins
20.11.2010 21:55:55 [ERROR]: Synchronization failed with the following exception: Expected =, but found > [62] Line 12, position 60.
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ExpectAfterWhitespace (Char c) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadAttributes (Boolean isXmlDecl) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadStartTag () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.ReadContent () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Mono.Xml2.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Tomboy.Sync.NoteUpdate..ctor (System.String xmlContent, System.String title, System.String uuid, Int32 latestRevision) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Tomboy.WebSync.WebSyncServer.GetNoteUpdatesSince (Int32 revision) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Tomboy.Sync.SyncManager.SynchronizationThread () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: tomboy 1.4.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 20 22:01:26 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomboy

[Sergey (phan2m)]

I saw in my notes that one of them has breaking format like <text:large>TEXT TEXT</text:large><format><highlight>texttextext</highlight><format> I removed that tags and sync was done.

[Sandy Armstrong (sanfordarmstrong)]

Any chance you edited that note in U1's online editor? This is looking more and more like a U1 bug, not a Tomboy bug.

[Sergey (phan2m)]

Yeah, that's right. I edited note from ubuntu one's web UI. But Tomboy couldn't sync with all of my notes with error.log that was attached to my post. So it's Tomboy's bug too.

[Sandy Armstrong (sanfordarmstrong)]

Tomboy not synchronizing broken notes is a feature.

U1 breaking your notes is a bug.

Reassigning this to ubuntuone-servers.

[Roman Yepishev (rye)]

Hello,

At the moment it looks like all the bugs that could have caused complete failure of the sync process have been fixed so I am setting this to Fix Released.

If you are experiencing issues with tomboy sync (but not 404 NOT FOUND response from the server, that's bug 575937[0]) please try the following script that should provide you with the information regarding what note is causing the synchronization to fail.

Editing and re-saving the offending notes in the web interface should restore your tomboy sync, however if the note in the web interface appears completely blank please do not re-save it since that will overwrite your previous note content.

Please contact <email address hidden> if you are not able to restore the notes in this way and we will find the ways that can be done on a case-by-case basis.

Here's how to use the script in the terminal:

cd /tmp
wget
http://people.canonical.com/~roman.yepishev/us/tomboy-sync-validator.py
python tomboy-sync-validator.py

It should print something like this:

API ref is at https://one.ubuntu.com/notes/api/1.0/user/, querying...
Notes are at https://one.ubuntu.com/notes/api/1.0/op/, querying...
Current sync GUID: 0
Latest sync revision: 2
Found 5 notes
[1/5] "Start Here": OK
[2/5] "Ubuntu One": OK
[3/5] "Hello again!": OK
[4/5] "Using Links in Tomboy": OK
[5/5] "New Note 1": OK

However if there is an error it will print something like
[1/5] "Start Here": ERROR
        23d57ffb-a492-4ba1-adf4-72f0eb23b254: last-change-date-is-broken (000)

https://one.ubuntu.com/notes/view/23d57ffb-a492-4ba1-adf4-72f0eb23b254

[0] Can't synchronize Tomboy Notes: Server returned 404 NOT FOUND
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/575937