Endless waiting for Zotero translators at startup

grulem · October 29, 2019

I am using Better BibTeX with Zotero 5.0.76 and recently it hangs when starting. Zotero uses one CPU core completely. I've tried to reset the translators and got an error that I reported with ID 1210104811.

Most parts of Zotero work but are really slow. Others don't work e.g. indexing of imported files.

adamsmith · October 29, 2019

That's almost certainly an issue with/effect of Better BibTex. You'll get it resolved more quickly by opening an issue on the add-on's github page: https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues

grulem · October 29, 2019

I posted https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/1313

emilianoeheyns · October 29, 2019

From the looks of it this is (at least partially) fallout damage -- multiple non-BBT translators are missing, it looks like that makes Zotero.Translators.reinit() fail (which BBT calls), which makes BBT fail its startup, and it all goes south from there.