Zotero.Translators.init() hangs

[Emiliano Heyns]

I have users where a call to await Zotero.Translators.init() doesn't resolve (just hangs). I call this after an await Zotero.initializationPromise. I cannot reproduce this on my own systems.

[Emiliano Heyns]

Are there conditions I can check before calling Zotero.Translators.init to make sure it's save to `await` it? I already wait for await Zotero.initializationPromise

[Dan Stillman]

On 5/20/24 6:31 PM, Emiliano Heyns wrote:
> Are there conditions I can check before calling
> Zotero.Translators.init to make sure it's save to `await` it? I
> already wait for await Zotero.initializationPromise

We'd want to see a Debug ID from startup (or debug log sent to
sup...@zotero.org) from someone who can reproduce this.

[Emiliano Heyns]

I'll arrange that. Extra info: `await Zotero.Translators.init()` executed in the Run Javascript console succeeds with or without BBT installed -- although this can perhaps be a timing issue (in that the condition which causes the stall has resolved itself by the time the user got there).

[Emiliano Heyns]

D813083066

[Emiliano Heyns]

And a succesfull startup with the same installation (it happens sometimes): D522314190

[Emiliano Heyns]

Maybe unrelated, but another user tried enabling and disabling BBT and got

[18113, Main Thread] ###!!! ABORT: file resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm, line 148 [18113, Main Thread] ###!!! ABORT: file resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm, line 148 /home/<readaced>/local/Zotero_linux-x86_64/zotero: line 13: 18113 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$CALLDIR/zotero-bin" -app "$CALLDIR/application.ini" "$@"

[Emiliano Heyns]

One more where it hangs: D472271866

[Emiliano Heyns]

For this user, a hang also brings the connector problem, and thee busy-wait workaround solves both problems.

[Emiliano Heyns]

What seems to have worked is just call

await Zotero.initializationPromise

await Zotero.Translators.init()

and not doing any of BBTs initialization until they both resolve. I had so far only awaited Zotero.initializationPromise, and awaited Zotero.Translators.init() mid-startaup when I was installing the translators. This also seems to have taken care of the connector problem.

[Emiliano Heyns]

I have a user for whom

await Zotero.initializationPromise

await Zotero.Translators.init()

takes 00:07:59.336 (8 minutes) to resolve.