[11.04→12.04 upgrade] zeitgeist-daemon crashes with "zeitgeist-daemon.vala:473: Unable to upgrade from schema version 3"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
zeitgeist (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
High
|
Canonical Desktop Team | ||
Precise |
Triaged
|
High
|
Canonical Desktop Team | ||
Quantal |
Triaged
|
High
|
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen |
Bug Description
The end result is that none of the search options in dash work
The issue is solvable by removing $HOME/.
* kill unity-applicati
* start it in a terminal, see it complains about zeitgeist-daemon
* start zeitgeist-daemon, see the error message in the subject, fumble around on the internets for half an hour, attempt to purge/reinstall zeitgeist
* finally start zeitgeist-daemon --log-level=DEBUG, see this:
[16:45:33.549992 DEBUG] utils.vala:59: DATA_PATH = $HOME/.
[16:45:33.550419 DEBUG] utils.vala:78: DATABASE_FILE_PATH = $HOME/.
[16:45:33.554772 DEBUG] sql-schema.
[16:45:33.555311 WARNING] zeitgeist-
... and guess it doesn't like the database, remove the whole thing just to be sure
At least an informative message would be in order, if removing some obscure data automatically is not an option.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: zeitgeist-core 0.9.0-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 22 19:47:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: zeitgeist
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-21 (1 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.