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Unable to load scopes with unity-scope-tool

Bug #1310172 reported by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity8 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michał Sawicz

Bug Description

I'm launching unity-scope-tool from a trusty unity 7 desktop with unity8 and the sdk installed. It opens, but no scopes are detected:

$ unity-scope-tool
file:///usr/share/unity8/Dash/DashContent.qml:100: TypeError: Cannot read property 'loaded' of null
file:///usr/share/unity8/ScopeTool.qml:77:31: Unable to assign [undefined] to scopes_ng::Scope*
file:///usr/share/unity8/ScopeTool.qml:149:23: Unable to assign null to QString
ERROR! Caught unity::scopes::TimeoutException: Request timed out after 300 milliseconds

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-scope-tool 7.85+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 20 00:57:01 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-16 (399 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130316)
SourcePackage: unity8
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-07 (134 days ago)

Related branches

lp:~saviq/unity8/no-indicator-wait-drop-tool-desktop
Andrea Cimitan (community): Approve
PS Jenkins bot (community): Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
Diff: 47 lines (+2/-12)
4 files modified
data/CMakeLists.txt (+1/-2)
data/unity-scope-tool.desktop.in (+0/-8)
data/unity8.conf (+1/-1)
debian/unity-scope-tool.install (+0/-1)
lp:ubuntu/utopic-proposed/unity8
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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote :
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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

Make sure scope-registry and smart-scopes-proxy are running:

$ initctl start smart-scopes-proxy
$ initctl start scope-registry

This is still a bug that these are not started automatically, we should probably emit the "scope-ui-starting" upstart event on startup.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote : Re: [Bug 1310172] Re: Unable to load scopes with unity-scope-tool

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Michał Sawicz
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Make sure scope-registry and smart-scopes-proxy are running:
>
> $ initctl start smart-scopes-proxy
> $ initctl start scope-registry

Thanks Michał. I knew to start scope-registry, but not smart-scopes-proxy.

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Michal Hruby (mhr3) wrote :

The unity-scope-tool is a development tool, and should be run by the SDK itself when developing a scope. SDK will know how to launch it so it works correctly. I think the conclusion here is that we shouldn't be installing a .desktop file for it, cause it only confuses users.

affects: unity-scopes-shell (Ubuntu) → unity8
Changed in unity8:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Michal Hruby (mhr3)
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
assignee: Michal Hruby (mhr3) → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote :

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Michal Hruby
<email address hidden> wrote:
> The unity-scope-tool is a development tool, and should be run by the SDK
> itself when developing a scope. SDK will know how to launch it so it
> works correctly. I think the conclusion here is that we shouldn't be
> installing a .desktop file for it, cause it only confuses users.

Dropping the desktop file might be a good thing, but I didn't even
realize there was one. My end goal was/is to write a scope in Go. I
was trying to get a locally installed scope to show up. Don't assume
that just because someone wants to write a scope, they either know or
care about the underlaying components.

-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

   Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething>
   Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb>
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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

unity-scope-tool --help should help you there, then. You only need to talk to that one scope, not the whole registry.

Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)
importance: Undecided → Medium
no longer affects: unity8
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