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• Great, thanks so much Adam and Dan

  in Zotero icon not showing up in URL/address bar Comment by tleshuk September 19, 2014
• Awesome, that finally solved the issue, the address bar icon is back and everything is working properly now! So to prevent the issue from recurring, is there some setting to check to make sure that the Zotero add-on will automatically update? The re…

  in Zotero icon not showing up in URL/address bar Comment by tleshuk September 19, 2014
• OK, thanks for the insightful tip! Disabled the setting in Bitdefender, and now the padlock says I'm Verified by GeoTrust, Inc. Unfortunately, I'm getting the same "The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on www.zoter…

  in Zotero icon not showing up in URL/address bar Comment by tleshuk September 19, 2014
• OK thank you. So I uninstalled the 4.0.17 Firefox add-on and tried to install an up-to-date add-on from https://www.zotero.org/download/, but got an error from Firefox saying "The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on www…

  in Zotero icon not showing up in URL/address bar Comment by tleshuk September 19, 2014
• Just to follow up on this issue - I think I found out what the source of the problem was: my root partition was 100% full :) Once I cleared out some massive log files which were hogging the space, the rest of the error messages I was getting from Fi…

  in [SOLVED] Database Upgrade Error/There was an error starting Zotero (Report ID: 930550427) Comment by tleshuk October 15, 2010
• If all else fails (hopefully it won't have to come to this for you), you could try switching your Firefox profile or reinstalling Firefox (+ Zotero): http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/14712/solved-database-upgrade-errorthere-was-an-error-starting-…

  in Zotero 2.0.8 "database upgrade error" ID#: D1905071855 Comment by tleshuk October 13, 2010
• Solved! I honestly have not figured out what the issue was (likely relating to write permissions, although permissions for the profile folder looked fine when I checked), but things are working now again! What I did was completely uninstall any…

  in [SOLVED] Database Upgrade Error/There was an error starting Zotero (Report ID: 930550427) Comment by tleshuk October 12, 2010
• Thanks again for all the help - unfortunately not the journal file, and I don't have any security software that I know of. Also the rest of my computer is working fine, so probably (hopefully) not a hard drive issue. I think you are correct in …

  in [SOLVED] Database Upgrade Error/There was an error starting Zotero (Report ID: 930550427) Comment by tleshuk October 12, 2010
• Does not seem to be AppArmor (was not even aware it existed before this). Entering "apparmor_status" to the terminal gave: apparmor module is loaded. 7 profiles are loaded. 7 profiles are in enforce mode. /usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhcli…

  in [SOLVED] Database Upgrade Error/There was an error starting Zotero (Report ID: 930550427) Comment by tleshuk October 12, 2010
• Thanks Dan, forgot about the error console. I was able to submit my error to Zotero Server from Preferences as Debug ID: D1182800791

  in [SOLVED] Database Upgrade Error/There was an error starting Zotero (Report ID: 930550427) Comment by tleshuk October 12, 2010
• Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it does not seem to have worked. I installed Zotero 2.0.8, closed Firefox, replaced the sqlite file with the new one, but when I restarted Firefox I still got "Database Upgrade Error." I tried this same thing…

  in [SOLVED] Database Upgrade Error/There was an error starting Zotero (Report ID: 930550427) Comment by tleshuk October 12, 2010