On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 04:29:28PM -0400, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C. wrote: > Hi! I have a problem now with gtg and it is that is crashing at start > -I think- everytime giving an error like this:
Hi Pablo, welcome to the gtg list. :-) > $ gtg > Error parsing XML file > /home/arch/.local/share/gtg/longaplhanumericstring.xml: no element > found: line 1, column 0 > > Of course, the file is zero bytes and the .bak is there, so I rename > it and everything backs to normal until I shutdown the laptop. I've a Right, that error message basically just means that for some reason the .xml file was zero'd out. > feeling that this happens when I don't manually close gtg (of course I > don't, it'd be SO tedious to do it for every application), but I'm not > sure. You could be right, I've seen something like that myself when gtg terminated abnormally. I never could reproduce the situation deliberately so don't know exactly what conditions led to it. I gather that gtg gets in the middle of updating that .xml file but is closed before it has a chance to flush the file cache out to disk. You could check recent bug reports, I seem to recall one about this (or a similar issue) about a week or so ago. > The question really is... how should I diagnose the problem so I can > file a bug (if applicable)? Should I ran gtg always in debug mode > logging everything that happens or should I check somewhere else? Well, as a general rule, when debugging any desktop application having exact steps and conditions to reproduce the error is vital. If you can describe a problem well enough to enable a developer to reproduce a bug, that's like getting it halfway towards solving it. If you're curious about more advice on effective bug reporting, see the post I wrote to my blog a couple months ago on 'Defect Reports'. Bryce _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
