Crash when switching citation type (crash report #2137950410)

dltj · May 19, 2008

I'm experiencing a semi-reproducible problem when changing the type of citation. The steps to reproduce are roughly:

1) Open Zotero
2) Click the "Create New Item from Current Page" button
3) Change the item type from "Web Page" to "Journal Article"
4) Attempt to change metadata

Notable is that after step #3 the labels for the citation metadata do not change from those associated with a "Web Page" item to those associated with a "Journal Article" item. That is probably a symptom of the underlying problem.

Zotero 1.0.4 on Firefox 3.0RC1 under MacOSX 10.5.2, although it was happening under previous versions of Zotero and Firefox.

dstillman · May 19, 2008

What's the URL you're saving with the "Create New Item from Current Page" button?

dltj · May 19, 2008

Sorry -- I forgot that piece of the equation, Dan. It is:

'Assessing Your Organization's Innovation Capabilities' by Clayton M. Christensen

dstillman · May 20, 2008

Try running your database through the DB Repair Tool. Make a note of the Upload ID, and if a repair doesn't do the trick, send us an e-mail at support@zot....org with the Upload ID.

dltj · May 20, 2008

Dan --

So far, so good. The DBFIX util did find errors in the database, although I don't see anything obvious missing when I loaded the fixed version. I used the "Create New Item from Current Page" twice in the exact same pattern as described above and the error message did not reoccur.

Thanks for your help.