Upgrade StorageThere was an error starting Zotero (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Firefox 22, Zotero 3.011)
Hi everyone,
I think Ubuntu just upgraded my Firefox to 22, and for several days Zotero has not started.
I don't want to manually upgrade to version 4, since I am travelling, and want to make sure that my desktop zotero is well backed up.
Am I likely to risk corruption if I install Zotero 4 standalone?
I've looked through the forums, and found this:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/30904/there-was-an-error-starting-zotero/#Item_0
Which suggested:
http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs#reporting_startup_errors
I have gone through the relevant steps I have seen, and have the following errors in the log:
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:10:38
Error: missing name after . operator
Source File: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/zotero.js
Line: 2051, Column: 34
Source Code:
var commonsEnable = xml.setting.(@id == 'commons-enable');
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:10:38
Error: NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]
Source File: chrome://zotero/content/include.js
Line: 4
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:10:38
Error: TypeError: Zotero is undefined
Source File: chrome://zotfile/content/include.js
Line: 2
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:11:24
Error: ReferenceError: dw_locktimer is not defined
Source File: http://www.zotero.org/support/lib/exe/js.php?tseed=1365613896
Line: 1
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:11:24
Error: TypeError: $tree.dw_tree is not a function
Source File: http://www.zotero.org/support/lib/exe/js.php?tseed=1365613896
Line: 1
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:11:24
Error: TypeError: History.getState is not a function
Source File: http://www.zotero.org/static/js/_zoterowwwAll.bugly.1366653817.js
Line: 4466
I think Ubuntu just upgraded my Firefox to 22, and for several days Zotero has not started.
I don't want to manually upgrade to version 4, since I am travelling, and want to make sure that my desktop zotero is well backed up.
Am I likely to risk corruption if I install Zotero 4 standalone?
I've looked through the forums, and found this:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/30904/there-was-an-error-starting-zotero/#Item_0
Which suggested:
http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs#reporting_startup_errors
I have gone through the relevant steps I have seen, and have the following errors in the log:
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:10:38
Error: missing name after . operator
Source File: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/zotero.js
Line: 2051, Column: 34
Source Code:
var commonsEnable = xml.setting.(@id == 'commons-enable');
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:10:38
Error: NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]
Source File: chrome://zotero/content/include.js
Line: 4
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:10:38
Error: TypeError: Zotero is undefined
Source File: chrome://zotfile/content/include.js
Line: 2
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:11:24
Error: ReferenceError: dw_locktimer is not defined
Source File: http://www.zotero.org/support/lib/exe/js.php?tseed=1365613896
Line: 1
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:11:24
Error: TypeError: $tree.dw_tree is not a function
Source File: http://www.zotero.org/support/lib/exe/js.php?tseed=1365613896
Line: 1
Timestamp: 23/07/13 16:11:24
Error: TypeError: History.getState is not a function
Source File: http://www.zotero.org/static/js/_zoterowwwAll.bugly.1366653817.js
Line: 4466
You should be able to install and run Standalone 4.0.9 on the same database. Obviously you won't be able to save any items from Firefox, though.
There's also not particular reason to back-up before this upgrade (beyond the general reasons for backing up) as 4.0.9 doesn't perform a database upgrade - in other words you can downgrade to 3.0.x with the same database if you want/need to for some reason.