Re: problem loading GWorkspace DesktopPreferences Gorm file

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Monday, April 23, 2012 09:54 CEST, Riccardo Mottola 
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote: 
 
> Hi,
> 
> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm testing GWorkspace for a new release, and found, that the DesktopPrefs 
> > Gorm file doesn't load anymore:
> >
> > 2012-04-15 19:41:40.380 GWorkspace[7146] Exception occured while loading 
> > model: expected array count 8 and got 134479950
> > 2012-04-15 19:41:40.381 GWorkspace[7146] Failed to load Gorm
> > 2012-04-15 19:41:40.381 GWorkspace[7146] Exception occured while loading 
> > model: expected array count 8 and got 134479950
> > 2012-04-15 19:41:40.381 GWorkspace[7146] Failed to load Gorm
> > 2012-04-15 19:41:40.381 GWorkspace[7146] failed to load DesktopPref!
> > 2012-04-15 19:41:41.036 GWorkspace[7146] prfsname {"fsn_info_type" = 0; 
> > geometry = "508 93 450 675 0 0  1024 768 "; "hligh_table_col" = 0; 
> > iconposition = 5; iconsize = 48; labeltxtsize = 12; lastselection = ("/"); 
> > "list_view_columns" = {0 = {identifier = 0; minwidth = 80; position = 0; 
> > width = 140; }; 1 = {identifier = 1; minwidth = 80; position = 3; width = 
> > 129; }; 2 = {identifier = 2; minwidth = 80; position = 1; width = 90; }; 3 
> > = {identifier = 3; minwidth = 50; position = 2; width = 50; }; }; 
> > shelfdicts = ({index = 0; paths = ("/home/sebastia"); }, {index = 1; paths 
> > = ("/usr/local/libexec/GNUstep"); }); shelfheight = 77; singlenode = 0; 
> > spatial = 0; viewtype = Browser; }
> >
> > Riccardo said, this file was edited lately.
> > When I see those large numbers I guess, it may be that while editing that 
> > file on amd64, after the NSNotFound change with Gorm, that Gorm did encode 
> > some garbage in it?
> >
> > I have seen a similar problem with a Gorm file of PRICE too while testing 
> > that.
> > The problem with GWorkspace only tested on i386 so far, the problem with 
> > PRICE I have seen on i386 and amd64.
> >
> > Any idea where this could come from and what to do about it?
> I have no clue, I hope others can help. This kind of errors happened 
> when you had a bogus version number, remember? But here it should be 
> fine in the gorm file, please check.
> I hope other core guys can jump in, describe your configuration more 
> precisely?
> 
> I am able to open GWorkspace's preferences panel on most 32bit platforms 
> I have: NetBSD Sparc&x86, linux and even OpenBSD (using gcc and the 
> whole sourcetree built from our repository, not ports). It works also on 
> linux x86-64.

I run against the latest releases from February, since this is what will go in 
to the ports tree. On i386, I downloaded those tarballs, and installed those
on my clean machine. No Ports or patches involved.

> 
> I did not test PRICE explicitely on OpenBSD, but I will do so this 
> evening, however PRICE's filter windows load fine.. even on gnustep 
> release (I have a debian box which has debian core packages and then 
> apps build from source, to check stuff). I suppose you have trouble with 
> the "Curves" filter since it is the latest added? Or some other perhaps 
> I might have "edited" ?

The problem where I recognized it was the Convolve Filter.

Sebastian


> 
> Riccardo