Bug 500758
| Summary: | cannot add hamster-applet to GNOME panel | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | James Ralston <ralston> |
| Component: | hamster-applet | Assignee: | Mads Villadsen <maxx> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | maxx |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-12-01 17:27:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Could you try running the following command from a terminal and posting the output here? /usr/lib64/hamster-applet/hamster-applet -w -t Aha; that was useful:
Data Dir: /usr/share/hamster-applet
SELECT version FROM version None
ALTER TABLE facts add column description varchar2 ()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/hamster-applet/hamster-applet", line 60, in <module>
hamster.__init_db()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/hamster/__init__.py", line 90, in __init_db
storage = Storage(dispatcher)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/hamster/storage.py", line 26, in __init__
self.run_fixtures()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/hamster/db.py", line 689, in run_fixtures
self.execute("ALTER TABLE facts add column description varchar2")
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/hamster/db.py", line 506, in execute
res = cur.execute(statement, params)
sqlite3.OperationalError: duplicate column name: description
From digging in /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hamster/db.py, I see the problem: hamster-applet 2.24.2 (on Fedora 10) has this code:
#lock down current version
self.execute("UPDATE version SET version = 4")
While hamster-applet 2.26.0 does this:
# at the happy end, update version number
if version < current_version:
#lock down current version
self.execute("UPDATE version SET version = %d" % current_version)
I rsync ~/.gnome2/hamster-applet among the various boxes I use. When I rsync'ed the version 5 db from my Fedora 11 Preview box back to my Fedora 10 box, when I next ran hamster-applet on my Fedora 10 box, it "upgraded" the version number of the db from 5 to 4. While that didn't cause any problems for 2.24.2, when I rsync'ed that db back to my Fedora 11 Preview box, the next time hamster-applet ran, it thought the database was out of date, and attempted to update it, which failed because it was actually a version 5 database mislabeled as version 4.
For now, as a work-around, I'll just reset the db version number manually after 2.24.2 rewinds it to 4.
I can think of at least two different ways to fix this:
1. Release hamster-applet-2.26.0 for Fedora 9/10.
2. Patch 2.24.2 to use the "if version < current_version" check.
I'd vote for option #1, as 2.26.0 squashes the annoying "garbage date in date field on 64-bit machines" bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568797
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Closing, as Fedora 10 is about to go EOL, and F11 (and later) don't have this problem. |
I'm running Fedora 11 Preview (updated to latest Rawhide), and I cannot add the Hamster applet to my GNOME panel. Hamster appears on the "Find an item to add to the panel" list as: Time Tracker Project Hamster - track your time But when I select it and click "Add", a pop-up panel appears that says: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:Hamster_Applet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration? I can't find any other error messages. I had no problems with Hamster on Fedora 10. Versions: 0:hamster-applet-2.26.0-1.fc11.x86_64