zeitgeist-daemon crashed with DatabaseCorruptError in _check_index_and_start_worker(): Data ran out unexpectedly when reading posting list.

[Mariano Loza]

after todays update.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: zeitgeist-core 0.8.1.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 5 11:34:33 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANGUAGE=es:en
 LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon']
SourcePackage: zeitgeist
Title: zeitgeist-daemon crashed with DatabaseCorruptError in _check_index_and_start_worker(): Data ran out unexpectedly when reading posting list.
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/zeitgeist/_zeitgeist/engine/extensions/fts.py", line 282, in _check_index_and_start_worker
     hits = self._enquire.get_mset (0, 1)
 DatabaseCorruptError: Data ran out unexpectedly when reading posting list.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-03 (2 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Dusko Kukoleca (dusko-kukoleca)]

crash occured everytime when I start computer...

[Lazaro Alejo (habanany)]

crash occured everytime when I start computer...

[Jacobsallan (jacobsallan)]

I saw the abort in this bug report at least once per session for over a month. Today it is not occurring. I did three things this morning: (1) updated my Oneric system on Sept 19, (2) updated my Oneric system on Sept 20, and (3) downloaded Activity Journal. I've added a piece of the pkg history file that lists the apt-get activity today.

[Jacobsallan (jacobsallan)]

Ignore comment #4. I started up my computer, started 'sudo apt-get update' and fired up Firefox. And got the usual zeitgeist crash.

[Jacobsallan (jacobsallan)]

The crash occurs once per login session. I did the following, based on old bug reports:
% zeitgeist_daemon --quit
% cd $HOME/.local/share/zeitgeist
% mv fts.index fts.index.bak
Logout
Login
Wait

This seems to be a work around.
With a bit of assistance, I should be able to tear apart the indices in fts.index (good) and fts.index (bad).

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

Hi. The fts problem is well known. It was because of some xapian bugs due to
which crashes were happing(as I heard, I don't work on fts extension). The
update to zeitgeist has been pushed. Check if your system has zeitgeist
0.8.2 which contains all the big fixes

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

As Manish points out it would be helpful if people could test against zeitgeist-0.8.2 which just got uploaded to Oneiric, but also with zeitgeist-extension-fts-0.0.13 which also just got uploaded. There were some fixes to the setup of the Xapian index that also may have caught this one.