Upgrade StorageAdd Citation = Crash of Zotero 7 with LibreOffice Writer (24.2.5.2)
Since the update to Zotero 7 (which I was excited for an looks great) I am no longer able to add a citation to a document. This is on Fedora Linux 6.10.3-200fc40.x86_64
1. Zotero 7 open in the back ground
2. Writer open, position curser
3. Add Citation
4. Zotero crashed after 1 sec
5. Reopen Zotero & informed there are 2 instances open
6. Need to force Zotero to end
The only information I can get from the crash is 'zotero-bin shutdown by SIGSEV'. Restarting either program does not fix, rebooting the machine does not fix. Another forum fix suggests update of java and it is already updated. I have tried removing and re-adding the Writer plugin, I have also disabled all addons in Zotero from the older version (in fact it disabled them all when it updated automatically).
Machine is properly updated and everything else is working, this is the only issue I have, and each program works independently of one another perfectly and just wont talk to one another.
Is there a way to revert to the old version as I am in the middle of a huge Masters thesis and require a working citation manager? I am getting a little desperate, if anyone has any ideas I really would appreciate the assistance.
1. Zotero 7 open in the back ground
2. Writer open, position curser
3. Add Citation
4. Zotero crashed after 1 sec
5. Reopen Zotero & informed there are 2 instances open
6. Need to force Zotero to end
The only information I can get from the crash is 'zotero-bin shutdown by SIGSEV'. Restarting either program does not fix, rebooting the machine does not fix. Another forum fix suggests update of java and it is already updated. I have tried removing and re-adding the Writer plugin, I have also disabled all addons in Zotero from the older version (in fact it disabled them all when it updated automatically).
Machine is properly updated and everything else is working, this is the only issue I have, and each program works independently of one another perfectly and just wont talk to one another.
Is there a way to revert to the old version as I am in the middle of a huge Masters thesis and require a working citation manager? I am getting a little desperate, if anyone has any ideas I really would appreciate the assistance.
Zotero 6 is still available on the download page, so if that works, you can switch to that to continue working. We may have other questions for you later for troubleshooting this.
The download page shows a tarball only for Zotero 6 so I am unsure how to proceed and I shall have to do a lot of research as DNF or the Software manager will not use this file, and there is no way to 'revert' using the software package manager
I do not know what else I can do, and if it is not showing in DNF then I can not go back to the older version?!
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1723588851156 addons.xpi WARN Checking /app/share/zotero/distribution/extensions for addons
[JavaScript Error: "NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE: Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsICommandLine.handleFlagWithParam]" {file: "resource:///modules/BrowserContentHandler.sys.mjs" line: 428}]
bch_handle@resource:///modules/BrowserContentHandler.sys.mjs:428:34
1723588852045 addons.xpi WARN Addon with ID undefined already installed, older version will be disabled
[JavaScript Error: "Error: Addon must include an id, version, and type" {file: "resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm" line: 1723}]
[JavaScript Error: "Error: Addon must include an id, version, and type" {file: "resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm" line: 1723}]
appName => Zotero, version => 7.0 (x64), os => Linux 6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Aug 5 14:30:00 UTC 2024, locale => en-AU, extensions =>
'zotero-bin killed by SIGSEGV - org.freedesktop.GnomeAbrt'
and when it tries to report the error there are no error files (prob because Zotero crashes even before it can log an error (?) and I dont know what to do
I have found an old Zotero6 .deb package but software package manager wont open it and I cant install it. When I search DNF for Zotero it does not show up so I cant search for duplicates to revert to Zotero 6
Anyone else have any other ideas?
If I cant get this fixed I have no idea how I will be able to recover all the research and complete this masters in the next couple of months
I have used the instructions on the following page:
https://itsfoss.com/downgrade-flatpak-packages/
to revert to Zotero 6 and everything has been sorted for the moment. But I still have no solution for the problems with Zotero 7. I wish I had more knowledge to assist or even more time to assist
1. Install Flatseal (as Flatpak from e.g. Fedora App Store)
2. In Flatseal, search for Zotero
3. Under Socket, disable "Wayland windowing system"
4. Restart Zotero and LibreOffice
Credit to: https://github.com/flathub/org.zotero.Zotero/issues/165#issuecomment-2347228485