[Gambas-user] MTHeme error...

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 10/07/2014 15:26, Stephen a écrit :
>    On 07/10/2014 08:46 AM, Tobias Boege wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Stephen wrote:
>>>      Thank you Tobias.
>>>
>>>      Hmmmm... it (MTheme.ReadFile) is looking for a subdir off /tmp with
>>> the name of gambas. I created the subdir manually and gambas3-3.5.4 now
>>> starts up as it should.
>>>      Perhaps a change to the MTheme.module is warranted, check for the
>>> existence of the directories referenced in sPath, create them if need
>>> be, then copy sPath to sTemp. Just a thought.
>>>
>> Hmm, interesting. From _init(), ReadFile("gambas") gets called, which
>> constructs a path "theme/gambas" to load the default theme which is then
>> copied to a temporary location, which is the famous line 59.
>>
>> But the path to copy the theme file to is obtained from Temp$() so if this
>> directory doesn't exist, some node in the path /tmp/gambas.UID/PID/ does not
>> exist (which would be strange) or Temp$() is broken...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tobi
>>
> Triple(Hmmm). It was the Temp$() function in the code that sent me off
> to eye-ball the /tmp directory and resultantly discover that no 'gambas'
> subdir existed. Manually creating the directory resolved the issue, so
> it looks like the code
>
> copy sPath to sTemp
>
> is working fine... where sPath = "theme/gambas" and sTemp = /Tmp
>
> which would mean that Temp$() is returning the correct information.
>

At startup, a Gambas program creates a "/tmp/gambas.<uid>/<pid>/" 
directory.

So if it does not exist later, then there is a problem with "/tmp". 
Maybe a normal user does not have the right to create a directory in 
'/tmp' ?

-- 
Benoît Minisini