Re: gworkspace crashes on startup

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 8 Apr 2011, at 09:48, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

>> 2011-04-08 07:41:12.269 fswatcher[2502] register client 2
>> 2011-04-08 07:41:13.108 GWorkspace[923] File NSPropertyList.m: 1012. In id
>> parsePlItem(pldata *) Missing semicolon in dictionary at line 11 char 176
>> 2011-04-08 07:41:13.113 GWorkspace[923] File NSPropertyList.m: 1012. In id
>> parsePlItem(pldata *) Missing semicolon in dictionary at line 11 char 186
>> 2011-04-08 07:41:13.118 GWorkspace[923] File NSPropertyList.m: 1012. In id
>> parsePlItem(pldata *) Missing semicolon in dictionary at line 11 char 198
> I have never seen these errors.

They are warning about errors in a property list ... so they are data related 
rather than a bun in the software, any you probably haven't seen them simply 
because you aren't trying to parse any incorrectly formatted property lists.  
The errors should actually be harmless in GNUstep (the code will just report 
the error and continue), but would cause a parse failure on OSX ... so the 
files containing the bad property lists should be corrected.

The bad property list would look something like this:

{
  key1 = val1;
  key2 = val2;
  ...
  keyN = valN
}

Note that the semicolon after valN is missing ... the default gnustep behavior 
(unless OSX compatibility is enabled) is to treat the closing '}' as implying a 
semicolon so that the plist parse can complete.