Re: Segfault in SystemPreferences

[Andreas Schik]

Fred Kiefer schrieb:
[snip]
> > I still have a problem with SystemPreferences, though. The colours panel
> > does not work. Clicking 'Show All' in this panel yields the following:
> >
> > 2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] File NSString.m: 1237.
> > In -[NSString initWithContentsOfFile:] Contents of file
> > '/home/ahe/GNUstep/Library/Colors/System.clr' are not string data
> > 2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] Scanner initialised
> > with nil string
> > 2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] Unable to read color
> > file at "/home/ahe/GNUstep/Library/Colors/System.clr" -- unknown format.
> >
> > SystemPreferences does not respond for several seconds before it
> > segfaults. The file is actually some binary stuff.
>
> Just remove the file it will be regenerated the next time you start up
> GNUstep. No idea what happened to it, though.

This did not help. I removed the file, restarted the computer (BTW, what 
do you mean by 'start up GNUstep'?) and SystemPreferences and got the 
same effect.
I checked the presence of that file and can confirm that it only 
appeared after I clicked the 'Apply' button in the colour prefs. It 
seems like the prefs module writes the file in another format than it 
actually wants to see.