Re: [AUCTeX] Update: Text corruption

[Axel E. Retif]

Tassilo,


> > But then, on January 4, after waking the machine from sleep, I couldn't open
> > Audacious from Favorites. To make a not so long story short, ``something'' had
> > changed in the file ~/.kde/share/config/kickoffrc (which I didn't even know it
> > existed) /usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop to /.../audacious.desktot
> > <-t
> > instead of p.
>
> Again, that matches the pattern David discovered.  A flip in bit 2:
>
>    p = 1110000
>    t = 1110100

Indeed. That was the turning point for me ---as I said, I didn't even 
know the file kickoffrc existed (I had to grep my HOME to find that 
.desktot), so corruption had happened at disk level ---and, I think, bad 
sectors are easier to catch with a good program (I used the 3+ hours 
``Extended Self-test'' of GSmartControl)--- or at RAM level, which was 
more likely.

Also, to make shorter my story, I didn't say that I had been having a 
recurring �%01PARAMETERS=.rm file in root ( / ). Every time I saw it I 
deleted it (sudo rm ...), and then it latter reappeared. Finally I 
realized that it was created when the machine went to sleep or when it 
woke up. I think it might come from instructions in 
/usr/lib/pm-utils/functions.

Since I changed the memory modules, said file hasn't appeared any more.

[...]

> > Curiously enough, sometimes Meld have shown some text corruption, but
> > reopening the same diff documents with Meld makes the ``corruption''
> > disappear (and checking with Emacs, TeXworks and Kate show that indeed
> > there wasn't any corruption).
>
> Did that happen with the new memory modules, i.e., is the issue still
> there, or has it been solved with the new modules?

With the new memory modules, but it has been different. I has happened 
twice exactly:

The first, instead of the word ``según'' Meld showed in the new version 
of the file something like ``segÃn'', as if it was mistaken the encoding 
for that word along, but closing Meld and, without doing anything else, 
choosing again "External editor" from the gitk interface, didn't show 
the error again. Anyway, I also checked with Emacs, TeXworks and Kate 
and there wasn't such corruption.

The second, it showed a $ instead of a space. As I don't use 
nonstopmode, it was impossible that LaTeX had typeset the file with an 
opening $ without a corresponding closing $, but I checked anyway and 
indeed there wasn't such $.

Also, the text corruption that originated this thread didn't go away 
---I still have some in an org-mode file that I have kept as a reminder.


Again, thank you very much for your kind help, and I'll keep you 
informed if something else happens.


Best

Axel