Andreas Schik wrote: > Fred Kiefer schrieb: >> Andreas Schik wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> last week (May, 27th) I upgraded my GNUstep installation from SVN and >>> encountered problems with SystemPreferences and GWorkspace. >>> Both simply segfault during startup. Additionally, GWorkspace tells me >>> that is cannot load English.lproj/PrefWindow.gorm. >>> >>> In both cases the debugger shows that the crash happens in >>> -[GSFFCallInvocation initWithMethodSignature:]. Here is the bachtrace: >>> >>> #0 0xb794a873 in -[GSFFCallInvocation initWithMethodSignature:] ( >>> self=0xc1f00000, _cmd=0x200862, aSignature=0x38220000) >>> at GSFFCallInvocation.m:548 >>> #1 0x00050000 in ?? () >>> Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) >>> >>> No, I did not compile -base with debug info, yet, as I did not have time >>> so far, but maybe someone already has an answer for me and spares me >>> debugging -base :-) >>> >> >> It is highly likely that this behaviour is caused by Systempreferences >> now being installed in a different domain than before. By default it >> will now be installed in Local not System. But there still are the old >> preference panes in System and these will get loaded, but wont work >> correctly with the new application. Best to remove all these old >> components. I also changed the installation domain by adding >> Systempreferences to /etc/GNUstep/installation-domains.conf, but this is >> optional and just shows that I still recent the change we made here :-) >> >> Hope this helps > It did. I already suspected that and removed all prefs bundles from System, > but did not see that I had an old one in Local :-) Your response helped > me see that. > > 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. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
