[Gambas-user] MTHeme error...

[Stephen]

On 07/10/2014 09:35 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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' ?
>
Well, I'm a normal user, I went to /tmp and did a "touch foo" at the 
cli, which worked properly, creating file "foo". There were other gambas 
directories with the <uid> appended to them, perhaps created when 3.5.3 
was originally install from the fedora repo? Anyway, gambas.0 and 
gambas.1000 (root and me, respectively), were present in /tmp, but no 
"gambas" sans <uid>, which is what it seems to have wanted. Do a mkdir 
gambas (no .<uid> extension on the name) and Bob's your uncle, it seems 
to work.
At the moment I'm doing a configure make install of the latest 
development version to try to cure another problem with list-boxes 
(mentioned in an previous post). Fingers (and eyes) crossed! :)

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Stephen A. Bungay, Prop.
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