Re: Weird problem

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, February 13th, 2025 at 02:07, Bruce Steers bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> You'll hate me for saying it but "did you try turning it of and on again?" (reboot to clean /tmp/gambas-1000 and /run/usr/1000/gambas cache)
>
> maybe rm -rf /usr/lib/gambas3 before installing to ensure all libs are built/current.

This the kind of stuff needed when self compiling on a system gambas3 is already installed. That is not the case here.

I install from a self hosted web repository on my home server (old laptop). I updated the repository with a repackage of what was already there. Working with Benoit on OSB has improved my recipes and I just did a repackage of my 3.18.4 backported version of gambas. It contains some fixes/additions that are post 3.18.4 that I added into it. All I changed is the addition of '+bpo' to version in package names so I could differentiate between backported version and non backported packages and make sure dpkg sees new packages as an upgrade (I'm talking debian package versions here, not gambas versions, there is a difference)

So, I already had gambas installed from this repository and the repository got updated. So, a simple apt-get update && apt-get update updated all. I always check Synaptic Package Manager (search for gambas3) to check if proper versions are installed/updated as part of my testing new repositories. All updated just fine (all 3.18.4+bpo versions), so no problem there.

All my installed gambas3 applications worked (as in application packaged in IDE as .deb and next installed). So, gambas itself was NOT the problem. It was the gambas IDE not starting that was the problem, but only on 2 of the 4 accounts on my system as I found out soon enough.

The relation Fabien (in screeshot) showed with offline documentation made me realize I had turned that on for 2 account. So 1 and 1 is two. It turned out gambas3.conf needed a small change for these 2 accounts and that fixed the problem.
No need for reboot, removal of gambas libraries or uninstall/purges of installed gambas3.

But thanks anyway,

gbWilly

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