Zim

Zim Wiki crashed forever on Windows, unable to open until an un-installation is done and re-installed again.

Bug #1604252 reported by Pabitra Kumar Pati
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Bug Description

Steps Done
====================
1. Downloaded and installed Zim-setup-0.65_2016-01-18.exe for Windows (on Windows 8)
2. After installation default Note (with named as 'Note') was being created and opened.
3. As seen from the demo video from site I tried creating another note from the one I was in
4. So I did typed
       :Demo

5. Then I clicked on Demo link which took me to a new note with name 'Demo'. Also created a new Demo note on left panel of Zim Wiki.
6. After opening the new Note, I wanted to open a new note within this one. So I typed as follows :-
      :Imp Linux Cmds
  (Basically a name with multiple words)

7. But, while I tried navigating to the new note by clicking on the new name (i.e. on :Imp Linux Cmds), nothing happened, I was not navigated to the new note, not even a new note was created.

8. The suddenly I realized that my current note (Demo), is a new and blank one, then why not change it's name. So i changed it's title on the top of note.
9. But the new name was not reflected in left nav panel which lists all the existing notes.
10. So I just right clicked on the name of the Note(Demo) from left nav panel. And found rename option.
11. So I renamed it there to 'Imp Linux Cmd'.
12. Next it asked me whether to change all it's reference? And, I pressed yes.
13. As explained in step 2 - 4, I have created this 'Demo' from within 'Note'. So it did tried changing the reference of 'Demo' (:Demo) to 'Imp Linux Cmd' (:Imp Linux Cmd) there in the first note 'Note'.

Observations :-
===================
Out of a sudden it shown Zim wiki stopped. And an wondow opened saying 'Looks like you found a bug' with following message :-

This is zim 0.65
Platform: nt
Locale: en_US cp1252
FS encoding: mbcs
Python: (2, 7, 11, 'final', 0)
Gtk: (2, 24, 10)
Pygtk: (2, 24, 0)
Zim revision is:
  branch: 065
  revision: 805 <email address hidden>
  date: 2015-11-01 15:42:45 +0100

======= Traceback =======
  File "zim\main.pyo", line 446, in main
  File "zim\main.pyo", line 211, in run
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 283, in start_server_if_not_running
AssertionError: Failed to start server (spawning)

Tests Ahead :-
======================
14. I closed the dialog and try re-opening the Zim wiki. But this time the same error dialog opened with the above given error message.
15. I went to the folder where the notes were being saved, deleted them and tried opening Zim wiki again. But it failed in the same way.
16. So I uninstalled it with iobit uninstaller ( Which deletes all the associated registry key as well).
17. After reboot, I was able to re=install it successfully.

Revision history for this message
Pabitra Kumar Pati (pabitrakumarpati) wrote :
summary: - Zim Wiki creashed forever on Windows, unable to open even after
- uninstalling and re-installing.
+ Zim Wiki crashed forever on Windows, unable to open until an un-
+ installation is done and re-installed again.
Revision history for this message
Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) wrote :

Shoul dbe improved with release 0.66

Changed in zim:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Zim because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in zim:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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