Error when regenerating parts in order to use search feature

beginners
1

Hello, I downloaded version 0.99, I am under Ubuntu 20.04LTS. Prior to it, I was using default version (0.93b) that we can install under Ubuntu using “apt-get install” command.

I removed the 2 folders prior executing fritzing:

rm -Rf ~/Documents/Fritzing
rm -Rf ~/.config/Fritzing

Starting fritzing using the following command
~/fritzing-0.9.9-l348-f0af53a9.AppImage

I am getting the following messages (do not look harmful?) at startup
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
qt.gui.icc: Unsupported ICC profile class 70727472
QPngHandler: Failed to parse ICC profile

Everything looks ok.

Then, clicking on “new sketch”, opening it.

Then “components”, “regenrate component database…”, get the popup, then “regenerate”

The issue I am getting a message:
Unable to delete the original DB file
/tmp/.mount_fritziApAx6e/fritzing-parts/parts.db

…and on the console getting this:

Object::setParent: Cannot set parent, new parent is in a different thread QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection ‘qt_sql_default_connection’ is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name ‘qt_sql_default_connection’, old connection removed.

the file under /tmp was created at program startup and cannot delete it myself using sudo command.

What is the issue? I lost my whole afternoon … MANY THANKS!!!

2

Why are you trying to regenerate the parts database? That is very rarely required when you for some reason you have to manually update the parts repository. The appImage has a correct copy of the parts repository and works (at least for me, on Ubuntu 18.02LTS) fine. I don’t think there have been any parts updates in a while (because no one, including me, has submitted any recently.) It sounds like a change in 0.9.9 may have broken the data base reqenaration from the error messages (which is likely a bug!) though, as what should happen is that Fritzing updates the parts database and then shuts down. The new parts database is used on the next startup.

Peter

3

Many thanks Peter, I was convinced that I needed to regenerate the DB prior to do a search… I noticed after my post that search is available on the right side in component window . Thanks for the help

4

That said in 0.9.9 parts regen appears to be broken which I will report as a bug.

Peter