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/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
> -------------------------------------
> 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
> -------------------------------------
> 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/"
> -------------------------------------
> uname -a
> -------------------------------------
> 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
>
> ** Affects: zim (Ubuntu)
>      Importance: Undecided
>          Status: New
>
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