Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for your kind words.

I'm happy to elaborate on the circumstances
leading up to finalize hanging bibus.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid I have little, if
anything, concrete to add.

Finalize hung while editing a Microsoft Word .doc
document in version 3.2 of oowriter.

The document is about 100 kilobytes long, and may
have about ten references inserted by bibus.

Finalizing seemed to me to work soon after
installing and starting to use bibus, and then
became progressively less reliable. However, as
I'm sure you can appreciate, this observation may
be entirely due to finalize hanging randomly.

I also have a vague recollection of working around
a previous finalize hang by simplifying the
formatting or document structure surrounding its
bibliography.

Yes, I'm still using bibus.

Best regards,
Kingsley

On 05/08/10 20:01, Jan Beyer wrote:
> Many thanks, Kingsley, for taking the time to send this bug report together with a solution proposal!
> Do you maybe have some further information detailing your "sometimes"? (You wrote, that bibus "sometimes" hangs while trying to finalize.) Did you notice anything specific which could trigger this behaviour?
> 
> I asked upstream for a comment on the solution. If he doesn't see any problem with it, I will try to release a new debian revision of bibus with the fix (if he doesn't want to release a fixed bibus version right away).
> 
> Many thanks again, and I hope, you will/can continue using bibus for some more time to come... ;-)
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jan
> 
> Am 07.05.2010 um 22:47 schrieb Kingsley G. Morse Jr.:
> 
> > Package: bibus
> > Version: 1.5.1-3
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > 
> > I'm still using bibus, and would like to humbly suggest
> > another improvement.
> > 
> > I happened to notice that it sometimes hangs after
> > trying to "finalize" a document.
> > 
> > Fortunately, a fix is described at
> > 
> >    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1227442
> > 
> > Essentially, at line 748 in /usr/share/bibus/bibOOo/bibOOoBase.py
> > 
> >    'private:stream'
> > 
> > is replaced with
> > 
> >    self.model.getLocation()
> > 
> > It seems to work so far for me.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kingsley
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: lenny/sid
> >  APT prefers unstable
> >  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> > 
> > Versions of packages bibus depends on:
> > ii  python                       2.5.2-1     An interactive high-level object-o
> > ii  python-central               0.6.14+nmu2 register and build utility for Pyt
> > ii  python-wxgtk2.8              2.8.7.1-1.1 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
> > 
> > Versions of packages bibus recommends:
> > ii  bibus-doc-en                  1.5.1-3    Bibus bibliographic database docum
> > ii  openoffice.org-writer         1:3.2.0-8  office productivity suite -- word 
> > ii  python-uno                    1:3.2.0-8  Python-UNO bridge
> > 
> > Versions of packages bibus suggests:
> > pn  libmyodbc | libsqliteodbc    <none>      (no description available)
> > pn  odbcinst1 | odbcinst1debian1 <none>      (no description available)
> > ii  python-mysqldb               1.2.2-10+b1 A Python interface to MySQL
> > ii  unixodbc                     2.2.14p2-1  ODBC tools libraries
> > 
> > -- no debconf information
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
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