0.60 refuses to start

Try running "zim -D" from the terminal and check for error output that can
explain what is happening.

REgards,

Jaap

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Kevin Donnelly <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #236195 on Zim:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/zim/+question/236195
>
> I updated from 0.43 to 0.60 on Ubuntu Linux, and the new version opened my
> notebook OK. I started a new notebook, and set Zim to use the Distraction
> Free Editor plugin. Pressing F11 took it to fullscreen, but without
> menubar or icon-bar, as expected. However, although pressing F11 again
> took it back to the previous size, the menubar and icon-bar were still
> missing. I used F1 to open the help pages in Zim, and from the preferences
> there disabled the ticks in the Distraction Free Editor plugin
> configuration. Zim refused to start. I then went to the config file and
> deleted the entries for the Editor, and the new notebook I had created.
> Zim still refused to start. I downgraded to 0.43, and Zim started,
> showing my original notebook. I upgraded to 0.60 again, and Zim refused to
> start, so I've downgraded again to 0.43, since I need my original notebook.
> Is there some setting that is "stuck" that I need to zap? And why is
> there no hotkey to toggle menubar/icon-bar? Thanks for any help you can
> offer.
>
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===
zim -D
INFO: This is zim 0.60
DEBUG: Python version is (2, 6, 5, 'final', 0)
DEBUG: Platform is posix
DEBUG: No bzr version-info found
DEBUG: Not running from a source dir
DEBUG: Set XDG_DATA_HOME to /home/kevin/.local/share
DEBUG: Set XDG_DATA_DIRS to [<Dir: /usr/share>, <Dir: /usr/share>, <Dir: /usr/local/share>]
DEBUG: Set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to /home/kevin/.config
DEBUG: Set XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to [<Dir: /etc/xdg>]
DEBUG: Set XDG_CACHE_HOME to /home/kevin/.cache
DEBUG: Running command: gui
DEBUG: Loading config from: /home/kevin/data/notebook/notebook.zim
DEBUG: Loading config from: /home/kevin/data/mynotes/notebook.zim
DEBUG: Wrote /home/kevin/.config/zim/notebooks.list
INFO: Opening default notebook
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
^CDEBUG: Starting server by spawning new process
INFO: Spawning: ['/usr/bin/python', '/usr/bin/zim', '--ipc-server-main', '/tmp/zim-kevin/zim-server-socket', '10'] (cwd: None)
DEBUG: Process started with PID: 21889
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
INFO: Server starting 21889 at /tmp/zim-kevin/zim-server-socket
^CInterrupt
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 21843: <RemoteMethodCall: 21843: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Cannot connect to server 21843:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/ipc.py", line 267, in start_server_if_not_running
    s.ping()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/ipc.py", line 750, in call
    conn = Client(SERVER_ADDRESS, SERVER_ADDRESS_FAMILY)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 143, in Client
    c = SocketClient(address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 263, in SocketClient
    s.connect(address)
  File "<string>", line 1, in connect
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/zim", line 74, in <module>
    zim.main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/__init__.py", line 443, in main
    start_server_if_not_running()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zim/ipc.py", line 277, in start_server_if_not_running
    raise AssertionError, 'Failed to start server (spawning)'
AssertionError: Failed to start server (spawning)
===

Seems to be trying to contact a server at 21843. Pressing ^C after waiting there for a while has it trying to start a server at 21889. Pressing ^C after another wait has it failing to connect to the server at 21843, and then giving the traceback.

Kevin

zim --standalone didn't work, but there was a zim process still running. Once I killed that, it started OK. Great!

The problem with Distraction Free Editor also seems to be resolved now, because F11 to fullscreen hides menubar/icon-bar, but F11 to revert shows them, which it wasn't doing before.

Thanks for your help.

Kevin

Thanks Jaap Karssenberg, that solved my question.