Floccus: XBEL not picking up new folders

[xelcho]

Software versions

OS: ubuntu 18.04 lts

• Browser: firefox quantum
• Nextcloud: 14
• Nextcloud Bookmarks app: 1.1.1
• Floccus: 3.3.2
• Floccus sync method: XBEL/webdav
  

Steps to reproduce

1. added new folder to root of bookmarks toolbar with bookmarks in it.
   2.

Expected outcome

after multiple syncs, expected it to show up on other synced machines.
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Actual outcome

after multiple syncs, expected it did not show up on other synced machines.
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Debug log

• [ ] Debug log provided

[marcelklehr]

Mh. I cannot reproduce this. Does the folder end up in the xbel file?

[xelcho]

Sorry for the delay!

I am not able to find the folder in the xbel file.

[marcelklehr]

Which folder did you select to be synced?

[xelcho]

I added a new folder to Firefox (on client machine) and expected it to be picked up by floccus and replicated to other client machines. This has been the pattern that has worked in the past, and I don't recall changing anything in the mean time.

Does that answer your question?

[marcelklehr]

Did you try syncing manually? You may also want to try the new beta, to see if this has been fixed by any chance: #338

[xelcho]

For my understanding: Manually Sync is clicking on "Sync now" button in the extension?

I will give the beta a try.

[marcelklehr]

For my understanding: Manually Sync is clicking on "Sync now" button in the extension?

Yes. But I assume you tried that already.

[xelcho]

Yes. But I assume you tried that already.
You know, I think so. Let's table this until I am home and can do so for certain!

Thanks!

[xelcho]

It seems that the client is hanging on sync, regardless if it is automatic or manually initiated. It gets hung at...

If I "mess" with it, I get issues with file locking.
If I delete the lock file, it hangs at the same spot.
I am not sure what I should be looking for in the debug log on client, the following are the last 2 lines:

Syncing failed with E023: Unable to clear lock file, consider deleting bm/bookmarks.xbel.lock manually.
onSyncFail

[marcelklehr]

Can you check the debug log, when it hangs?

[xelcho]

Client debug log:

I am not sure what I should be looking for in the debug log on client, the following are the last 2 lines:

Syncing failed with E023: Unable to clear lock file, consider deleting bm/bookmarks.xbel.lock manually.
onSyncFail

It is working, for now, by renaming the xbel file and creating a new one. Let's see if the other clients behave. :)

[bhlevca]

I am experiencing periodically the same behaviour and I need quite often to
delete the lock file and sometimes the xbel file. There is something
corrupting the process and I think that the locking mechanism need to be
reviewed. In particular, if a sync process is stopped for various reasons
including closing the browser, the lock file is not removed. Also,it
happens one in a while that I get duplicates, sometimes folders sometimes
duplicates inside the folder. It is so random that it is hard if not
impossible to catch.

I don't know how can I help to fix these issues.

Bogdan
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 06:32, xelcho [e-mail] wrote:

Client debug log:

I am not sure what I should be looking for in the debug log on client, the
following are the last 2 lines:

Syncing failed with E023: Unable to clear lock file, consider deleting
bm/bookmarks.xbel.lock manually.
onSyncFail

It is working, for now, by renaming the xbel file and creating a new one.
Let's see if the other clients behave. :)

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[xelcho]

So on my windows 10 firefox quantum client, the sync can not complete the debug log:

Bookmark unchanged
Syncing failed with E011: Item in folder ordering is not an actual child: {"id":813,"type":"bookmark"}
E011: Item in folder ordering is not an actual child: {"id":1353,"type":"bookmark"}
E012: Folder ordering is missing some of the folder's children
E012: Folder ordering is missing some of the folder's children
E011: Item in folder ordering is not an actual child: {"id":1333,"type":"bookmark"}
onSyncFail

Please advise, thx.

[marcelklehr]

@xelcho uh,oh. These errors suggest an inconsistency occurring somewhere in the sync algorithm. Are you using the new beta for this? Did you enable a different syncing strategy?

[bhlevca]

Hi,

I don't use the beta version and I get occasionally the same errors.

Bogdan

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 19:00 Marcel Klehr, [e-mail] wrote:

@xelcho https://github.com/xelcho uh,oh. These errors suggest an
inconsistency occurring somewhere in the sync algorithm. Are you using the
new beta for this? Did you enable a different syncing strategy?

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[xelcho]

@marcelklehr So I am not using the beta, same version from start of this post (3.3.2)

Current situation:
Home Client (Ubuntu) works fine, I can add bookmarks and folders and it syncs as it should.
My work Client (Windoz 10) with firefox is the machine having fits.

Please advise.

I'm considering download the bookmarks from my work machine, wipe them and rebuild from sync.

[marcelklehr]

I've just released v3.4.0. You can now easily run the latest code.

[xelcho]

Thanks!

I ran it with the new release on the windows client and it hung, same issue (E011...) . So I carried through with my plan to backup, then delete all book marks and then sync.

Seems good for now.
The result is a clean sync, now I have to do a diff on the backup and current book marks. :)

[marcelklehr]

@bhlevca Feel free to open a separate issue with your errors