I am running ubuntu 10.10, and installed Gnome Activity Journal. However it does not show any recently used files. I have attached a screenshot below.
Please note that gnome activity journal has been installed on the system for quite some time. So it is not that I recently installed and it still has to slowly gather data. Also the zeitgeist-daemon is running in the background.
Would reinstalling zeitgeist help solve this problem? If yes could you please provide a ppa where I can find the latest stable release of zeitgeist.
Update 1: I tried uninstalling both zeitgeist and gnome activity journal, but still the problem persists. Why is zeitgeist not gathering data?
Update 2: I checked the spikes in the month of december. But they were nothing. After proceeding to that month, the spike just went back to nothing just like the rest.
Update 3: I checked the zeitgeist preferences. I have not blacklisted anything. Going to check if deleting the database does anything.
Update 4: I am glad to know that zeitgeist is collecting data but somehow it is not being shown in gaj. Following one of the solutions below to purge the software and then reinstall it, I am no longer able to open gaj. However I can say that I couldn't purge everything properly. When I tried the command sudo apt-get --purge gnome-acitivity-journal
it doesn't work. When I try to open gaj now I get the following message in the terminal.
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 101, in <module>
from src.main import PortalWindow
File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/main.py", line 31, in <module>
from activity_widgets import MultiViewContainer, TimelineViewContainer, ThumbViewContainer
File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/activity_widgets.py", line 39, in <module>
from store import ContentStruct, CLIENT
File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 539, in <module>
STORE = Store()
File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 397, in __init__
days_population = ZeitgeistDBusInterface().get_extension("Log", "journal/activity").GetHistogramData()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 82, in __getattr__
raise TypeError("Unknown method name: %s" % name)
TypeError: Unknown method name: GetHistogramData
The thing is I used to get this error before. However I solved it by copying gnome_activity_journal.py to /home/krnekhelesh/.local/share/zeitgeist/Extensions/. But now that method does not seem to work. I also tried restarting the zeitgeist daemon but still the same problem.
Update 5: I no longer get the error posted in update 4. Gnome Activity journal opens but with the same problem as shown in the screenshot. The output of the terminal is
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Activate
Activating Example Plugin
Activating Blacklist Manager
Update 6: The recent documents is not disabled. I can view it perfectly under the places menu. Also the file activity.sqlite was created again when I deleted it showing that zeitgeist is recording recent activity.
Update 7: This is the most recent screenshot I've inserted below, where it shows 8 items for one or two days. However when I click on that day, GAJ does not show any recently used files.
Update 8: I deleted ~.local/share/zeitgeist folder and then ran the command zeitgeist-datahub
in the terminal. The output is as follows,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/zeitgeist-datahub", line 33, in <module>
from _zeitgeist.loggers.zeitgeist_setup_service import DataProviderService
ImportError: No module named loggers.zeitgeist_setup_service
Update 9: Version Number of the zeitgeist components are the following,
Zeitgeist-Core : 0.7.0
Gnome-Activity-Journal : 0.6
Zeitgeist-datahub : 0.5.2
Update 10: I completely removed GAJ and zeitgeist and made sure the folders /usr/share/zeitgeist and /usr/local/share/zeitgeist were also clear before I reinstalled GAJ again. On running GAJ the windows did not appear. So I did the following.
I typed zeitgeist-daemon --replace
and got the following output,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/zeitgeist-daemon", line 38, in <module>
from _zeitgeist.engine import constants
ImportError: No module named _zeitgeist.engine
And then I ran the command zeitgeist-datahub
and got the following output,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/zeitgeist-datahub", line 32, in <module>
from zeitgeist.client import ZeitgeistDBusInterface
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 35, in <module>
from zeitgeist.datamodel import (Event, Subject, TimeRange, StorageState,
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/zeitgeist/datamodel.py", line 1116, in <module>
execfile(os.path.join(_config.datadir, "zeitgeist/ontology/zeitgeist.py"))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/share/zeitgeist/ontology/zeitgeist.py'
On checking synaptic manager, the version numbers are the same as stated before in update 9.
UPDATE 10: IT WORKS!!!!!! Here is what I did, as told by mhr, I uninstalled everything, used locate zeitgeist
and removed everything. After which I also forced Version 0.5.1 for zeitgeist-datahub. Restarted and installed everything again. It works..however there is a small catch!
I have to first run the command zeitgeist-daemon --replace
and while this is running in the terminal, I can open GAJ. Otherwise it does not appear.
If I dont run zeitgeist-daemon --replace
but run GAJ in the terminal I get the following error messeage.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 90, in <module>
CLIENT = ZeitgeistClient()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zeitgeist/client.py", line 318, in __init__
self._iface = ZeitgeistDBusInterface()
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zeitgeist/client.py", line 184, in __init__
self.OBJECT_PATH)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
'su', (bus_name, flags)))
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/local/bin/zeitgeist-daemon: Success
Other than this, it works perfectly. It nicely got the files I used today, the picture I worked with and everything.
Hope this helps. Anyone?
zeitgeist-daemon
andgnome-activity-journal
packager for PPA ppa:zeitgeist/ppa here. I would like to see a snapshot and also the output you get when opening gaj from command line. Please use pastebin for it. This is a problem we had once, but of late not been able to reproduce it. A snapshot and CLI output of gaj would be helpfulUpdate 2
and from the graph I can see that gaj is not fetching any data from the engine. Zeitgeist is collecting information, but gaj is not able to fetch it.