<![CDATA[Are we forgetting the little bugs?]]>I write this in the hope that it does not offend anyone and that it is just taken as a question.

Are we forgetting the little bugs in the race to something greater? Each time I download and install a new update, I hope that one of the old bugs (legacy) ones are fixed, but they do not seem to be.

These are a few examples of the issues I know about, I am sure other people have more that they hope will be fixed with every release. One PlusOne double boot on startup, camera not zooming, having to spend 5 to 10 times turning on hotspot before it does come on, unable to increase system text size, browser not working, needing a computer phd to set up a vpn, the last system update install date changing every time you check for a new update and so on.

I know we are a community made up of users who do it for the love of it, like I use UT because I love it, but at the moment there is no way UT can be my daily phone.

Like I say I do. Other want to upset anyone with this post as I am so grateful that UT Is still alive, but we really need to look at some of the older bugs, that are still giving us pain.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1761/are-we-forgetting-the-little-bugsRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 10:19:57 GMTSat, 06 Oct 2018 12:09:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:25:34 GMT]]>@ksalver it sure does, thanks again. Hopefully this fix will be put in and more can have your fix.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13922https://forums.ubports.com/post/13922Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:25:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:51:37 GMT]]>Nice to hear, it seems that we're getting closer 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13898https://forums.ubports.com/post/13898Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:51:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:28:03 GMT]]>@ukphil YES !!! this worked also for me!
Months of insecure (is there any virus?? that boots my device twice ???) are past!
thank you very very much !

< " it is a corrupt media database - "/userdata/user-data/phablet/.cache/mediascanner-2.0/mediastore.db" or /home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner-2.0/mediastore.db.
I deleted this db and the double boot/shut down did not happen.">

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13896https://forums.ubports.com/post/13896Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:28:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:34:49 GMT]]>@kristatos what can I say, you are a star, that idea worked and I was able to determine that I had a bad media file in my videos > com.ubuntu.camera folder. I added a text file there saying ".nomedia" and rebooted a number of times. Each time I did not get the double boot issue on either start-up of shut down.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13881https://forums.ubports.com/post/13881Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:34:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:37:43 GMT]]>Maybe you can test if it depends on your media files or something else. It seems that there is an option to prevent mediascanner from scanning separate folders by creating a file named ".nomedia" in the folder you want to prevent from scanning. I think you have not so many folders containing media on your phone so it would be easy to test.
After that please delete the DB and reboot the phone. I would expect that the DB-file will be rebuild but the mediaplayer will not know/detect any media on your device. If there's no double boot too you have found the problem. If not the search goes on 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13854https://forums.ubports.com/post/13854Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:37:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 23 Oct 2018 02:25:12 GMT]]>@ukphil Whatever music and videos you have on your device. But at most this db being corrupt would cause mediascanner2 to crash, and your music/videos not available to play.

I would be extremely surprised if anything remotely like an actual reboot was a result of this database file being corrupted.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13846https://forums.ubports.com/post/13846Tue, 23 Oct 2018 02:25:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:25:45 GMT]]>I have no idea, but from what you are saying "I've looked at my E4.5 and it seems that this DB is build at every boot again" this is what is happening, but you think the input to this may be broken?

By any chance, you do not know what files go to make this up?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13845https://forums.ubports.com/post/13845Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:25:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:42:14 GMT]]>Strange that this issue is coming back to you. I deleted this DB around Ubports OTA-2 and after that there was no double boot again. Also not after installing OTA-3 and OTA-5.
I've looked at my E4.5 and it seems that this DB is build at every boot again. So could it be that there are some broken files on your system which end up in a corrupt database?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13822https://forums.ubports.com/post/13822Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:42:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:04:08 GMT]]>Issue raised in GitHub under https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/929

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13815https://forums.ubports.com/post/13815Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:04:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Sun, 21 Oct 2018 22:37:23 GMT]]>@dobey this has been covered about 17 comments from the top

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13814https://forums.ubports.com/post/13814Sun, 21 Oct 2018 22:37:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:08:38 GMT]]>To be clear, when people are saying "double boot" here, they do not actually mean that the phone reboots right? If so, I don't see how the mediascanner db could cause that.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13797https://forums.ubports.com/post/13797Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:08:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:57:31 GMT]]>@ukphil That sounds like proof! Do you have the bug number yet?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13784https://forums.ubports.com/post/13784Sun, 21 Oct 2018 06:57:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Sun, 21 Oct 2018 01:41:06 GMT]]>As an update I have noticed that most times I delete this db it will vome back. I think the fix has not worked when I get a double boot, only to find it back again.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13779https://forums.ubports.com/post/13779Sun, 21 Oct 2018 01:41:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:48:25 GMT]]>Cool will do and will post the number here.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13673https://forums.ubports.com/post/13673Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:48:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:38:23 GMT]]>Nice to hear that this fix works for other people with this issue also. @UKPhil I'm not sure if there's already a bugreport for this issue, if not you can add one and post my fix.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13637https://forums.ubports.com/post/13637Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:38:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:31:12 GMT]]>I can confirm that the fix given does actually work. Last night there was a system update (version 18) that I installed. After this install the double boot issue came back again. On checking the "/.cache/mediascanner-2.0/mediastore.db" was back again, so I removed it again and since then no double boot.

No worries about adding the bug report, but do you want to @kristatos as it is your hard work that has found the fix, I am just the tester 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13621https://forums.ubports.com/post/13621Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:31:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 17 Oct 2018 05:42:29 GMT]]>@hummlbach Quite right a great example of community pulling together to sort through an issue. Once again thanks to all those involved : )

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13582https://forums.ubports.com/post/13582Wed, 17 Oct 2018 05:42:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 17 Oct 2018 05:10:29 GMT]]>Awesom! Thats exactly how users can help the devs. I think now theres a reasonable chance to get that fixed. Well done community! 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13581https://forums.ubports.com/post/13581Wed, 17 Oct 2018 05:10:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:30:23 GMT]]>@ukphil Keep an eye and report back here in a few days. If you could check the bug reports on github and see if one matches this and the fix works you can add it to that if not. Probably best to create a new bug report then add this as a fix. That way it won't get missed. Thanks for thework everyone.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13578https://forums.ubports.com/post/13578Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:30:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:15:22 GMT]]>@arubislander thanks for that, I was able to locate the item mentioned by @kristatos and remove it. I did not want to delete it straight away in case it all went wrong, so I moved it to another folder.

@Lakotaubp I can confirm that after moving the mentioned media database I have restarted my DPD a number of times (by shut down & restart) and each time it has booted up just once. Not I get past the two lots of scrolling dots, I get three lots and then the login screen. I will monitor this for some time and see how it goes, but initial tests are promising.

Is there any way we can get this fix/delete of corrupt media database in the next release to help all those that have this issue but may not of read this thread? Seems a nice quick and easy fox.

@kristatos you are a star for finding that out and adding it here. Like I say initial tests are very promising. Thank you so much for adding your fix here and helping me and all the others out who have this issue. Cracking work mate.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13566https://forums.ubports.com/post/13566Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:15:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:09:38 GMT]]>@lakotaubp the location mentioned by @kristatos can also be accessed as /home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner-2.0/mediastore.db

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13546https://forums.ubports.com/post/13546Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:09:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:26:48 GMT]]>@ukphil Same with me.Lets see later. Thanks

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13520https://forums.ubports.com/post/13520Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:26:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:02:17 GMT]]>@Lakotaubp I have just tried to access /userdate in Filemanager (unlocked) and it will not let me in. I will have to try at home in a few hours.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13517https://forums.ubports.com/post/13517Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:02:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Are we forgetting the little bugs? on Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:03:00 GMT]]>@ukphil Can you check if you have that .db first. If you do you could try removing it and see what happens. I'll be back in about 8 hours. Good luck.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/13510https://forums.ubports.com/post/13510Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:03:00 GMT