GTG

GTG no longer starts

Asked by Desertfish

Installed GTG in Ubuntu 10.04 - it worked fine for a week or two, then one day it wouldn't start. I checked synaptic package manager in case I needed an update - nothing showed up. I uninstalled GTG then reinstalled, still no luck. I started it via the terminal and got this message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gtg", line 52, in <module>
    sys.exit(GTG.gtg.main(options, args))
  File "/usr/share/gtg/GTG/gtg.py", line 107, in main
    config = CoreConfig()
  File "/usr/share/gtg/GTG/core/__init__.py", line 86, in __init__
    self.conf_dict = ConfigObj(self.CONF_DIR + self.CONF_FILE)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/configobj.py", line 1238, in __init__
    self._load(infile, configspec)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/configobj.py", line 1328, in _load
    raise error
configobj.ConfigObjError: Parsing failed with several errors.
First error at line 3.

What should I try next, please?

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Izidor Matušov (izidor) said : 		#1

Hi,

something bad happend to GTG configuration files and they are not readable. They are stored in ~/.config/gtg. If you remove it, GTG starts again but you lose a bit of your configuration (enabled plugin, is the tagsidebar showed or not?, etc.)

The command

mv ~/.config/gtg/gtg.conf ~/.config/gtg/gtg.conf.bak

should solve your problem.

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Desertfish (desertfish) said : 		#2

Thanks for that - I tried it, now I'm getting a different error message:

Error parsing XML file /home/jon/.local/share/gtg/projects.xml: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1

Is this the same thing, or something different? Is GTG becoming sentient?

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Izidor Matušov (izidor) said : 		#3

Hi,

I am sorry for that inconvenience. GTG must crushed or didn't end properly when you turned your computer off and malformed your data. GTG backups your data in ~/local/share/gtg, try to find a sane backup and restore it. For more information read https://live.gnome.org/gtg/FAQ

The current development version of GTG does it instead of you. It shouldn't happen in next versions of GTG

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