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Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out
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MEPIS Novice  Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:49 pm Posts: 23 Location: Central Texas Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time 
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Post # 298778
 Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors outOS: Mepis 11 installed on a laptop. This error began yesterday on an existing long-time installation of Mepis 11 on this laptop, and has reappeared immediately after Mepis was reinstalled and re-updated today, including Zim.
The wiki editor Zim has been installed on Mepis 11 in my laptop for quite a while and never gave problems. Suddenly, yesterday, it would not open; trying in a terminal using $ zim yields this error message:
The error appeared yesterday for the first time, and has reappeared today after a complete re-install/re-update of Mepis 11. The following may or may not be relevant: Two months ago I installed PCLOS 2012.02 in another partition of this laptop. In previous times several other distros were installed in that partition. All my data files, including the ~/Notes file used by Zim, had been moved to a separate partition several years ago and linked back to the Mepis (or PCLOS or whatever), and this arrangement has worked without error until now. Zim appears to be the only application affected; Kmail, VirtualBox, Knotes, and xpad, have continued working correctly. Also perhaps not relevant: The error does NOT affect Zim in Mepis 11 on my desktop machine; Zim on that machine is shared between Mepis 11 and Mint 12 KDE and works fine in both. Is there any way I can get Zim working correctly again in Mepis on my laptop? In faith, Dave Viva Texas |
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| Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:26 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 298846
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out When I start Zim (0.55) from the command line, I also get that error/warning:
...and Zim works fine for me. So the question seems to be what the real cause is that Zim doesn't work for you. Are you using the (older) version from the Squeeze repositories (0.48-1) or a newer one downloaded from zim-wiki.org? In the latter case, are all dependencies still met? _________________ HP Probook 4310s - Intel Core2 Duo T6670, 3GB memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD grapics, Intel wifi - MEPIS 11 (32 bits), kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp, KDE 4.7.4 |
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| Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:04 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:49 pm Posts: 23 Location: Central Texas Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 298878
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out That's what puzzles me - Zim has worked fine for me in Mepis all this time. Now it quits.
I didn't mention that I'm using the 32-bit version of Mepis 11. Zim's version in Mepis is 0.48. It must be the squeeze version (my repos are mepis 11, squeeze, squeeze-updates, mepis11cr, and opera-stable). I've used these repos for all the length of time I've used Mepis and Zim. I deleted and then re-installed Zim using Synaptic, and there was no mention of any dependencies. When I try and run Zim from command line, it gives me that error message but then does NOT run. From the menu launcher, I only get a bouncing Zim icon which then goes dead. I would suspect the fact that I am running Zim through a link to its data files on the separate partition - except it has been working fine that way for a long time. In faith, Dave Viva Texas Take the Pepsi challenge -- choose Linux. |
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| Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:13 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 298942
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out You could try "verbose":
zim -V or debug mode: zim -D Hopefully that will reveal more about the problem. All options can be shown with: zim --help _________________ HP Probook 4310s - Intel Core2 Duo T6670, 3GB memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD grapics, Intel wifi - MEPIS 11 (32 bits), kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp, KDE 4.7.4 |
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| Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:55 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:49 pm Posts: 23 Location: Central Texas Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 299086
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out Arjen: I've tried to run Zim using the -V and -D operators. Here are the results:
Zim -V:
Zim -D:
I didn't see anything having to do with the text coding, but I don't know what I'm looking at anyway. I hope this will give you a clue. In faith, Dave Viva Texas |
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| Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:10 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 299090
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out Hi Dave,
The error:
means that the version control plugin cannot find the program it depends on, which is bzr (Bazaar version control). So you need to either install bzr through Synaptic (if you want to use version control) or disable the plugin (menu Edit > Preferences > Plugins and uncheck Version Control). Still it would have been much politer if Zim had detected the missing dependency without crashing... :-) Hope this helps! PS: there is another error ("ERROR: Error in child main") but I assume/hope this is related to the dependency error. _________________ HP Probook 4310s - Intel Core2 Duo T6670, 3GB memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD grapics, Intel wifi - MEPIS 11 (32 bits), kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp, KDE 4.7.4 |
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| Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:11 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:49 pm Posts: 23 Location: Central Texas Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 299199
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out Hi Arjen. I installed bzr, but Zim won't open while linked to the Notes directory in my data partition. I unchecked 'Version Control' and Zim still won't open (I had to let it make its own Notes directory, open Zim, and uncheck Version Control, then re-establish the linked Notes directory, restart Zim, and then it wouldn't open).
One consistent thing in this, is that Zim in Mepis will run if it is connected to its own Notes directory, but not if it's linked to the Notes directory in my data partition. It used to run fine linked, but stopped suddenly at an upgrade of Mepis. All my other distros run Zim fine linked to the data partition. Was there something in a recent upgrade that has bollixed Zim? In faith, Dave Viva Texas |
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| Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:55 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 299273
Re: Mepis 11: Zim suddenly won't open, errors out OK... Are you sure you're using the same version of Zim on all distros? Could it be that the version on Mepis is older? In that case it could be that it doesn't recognize its settings from a newer version. (Just a guess.)
_________________ HP Probook 4310s - Intel Core2 Duo T6670, 3GB memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD grapics, Intel wifi - MEPIS 11 (32 bits), kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp, KDE 4.7.4 |
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