Re: Error with new GWorkspace

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Stefan,

I am not entirely sure, what is causing this problem for you, but if you
are using a GWorkspace version from SVN then you should be using GNUstep
gui and base from SVN as well. We try not the break forward
compatibility but sometimes this is unavoidable. For example when adding
new instance variables to a encoding format. This may be the case here
and new values may be stored in the Gorm file, where the old GNUstep
release doesn't expect them.
It always is easy to keep backward compatibility, that is add code that
is able to load the old encoding format, but the other way round wont do.

Cheers,
Fred


Stefan Bidigaray schrieb:
> Hey, I just installed the new GWorkspace in Slackware.  I went ahead and
> created a package for it and upgraded using Slackware's upgradepkg, now
> everytime I try to access the GWorkspace's Preference box GWorkspace
> crashes with this error:
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.179 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.179 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.179 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/DesktopPref.gorm
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.180 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.180 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.181 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/DesktopPref.gorm
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.181 GWorkspace[14174] failed to load DesktopPref!
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.183 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.183 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.183 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/OperationPrefs.gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.184 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.184 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.184 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/OperationPrefs.gorm
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.184 GWorkspace[14174] failed to load OperationPrefs!
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.185 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: Tried to add nil to array
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.185 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.185 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/PrefWindow.gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.209 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model:
>  expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.209 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.209 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/DesktopPref.gorm
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.210 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.210 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.210 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/DesktopPref.gorm
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.210 GWorkspace[14174] failed to load DesktopPref!
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.212 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.212 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.213 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/OperationPrefs.gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.214 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: expected int and got unsigned int
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.214 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.214 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/OperationPrefs.gorm
> 
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.214 GWorkspace[14174] failed to load OperationPrefs!
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.214 GWorkspace[14174] Exception occured while
> loading model: Tried to add nil to array
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.215 GWorkspace[14174] Failed to load Gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.215 GWorkspace[14174] Could not load Gorm file:
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWorkspace.app/Resources/English.lproj/PrefWindow.gorm
> 2007-02-24 14:57:42.215 GWorkspace[14174] Preferences: failed to load
> PrefWindow!
> 
> I double checked, and all these gorm files exist, but whenever I try to
> open them up in Gorm I get this:
> "Failed to load file.  Exception: expected int and got unsigned int"
> "Could not load file /blah/blah/blah/DesktopPref.gorm"
> 
> Anyway, I'm not sure if this problem stems out from the use of GNUstep
> current stable release, or something else.  As you can see, Gorm can't
> open these .gorm files.  The weird thing is that it's just these .gorm
> files, GWorkspace works perfectly fine if I don't have to use the
> preference box.
>