Re: Project Center problems

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 11 Oct 2009, at 20:36, Michael Thaler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > My guess is that, as you are using gui from svn you have  
> > encountered a
> > short-term problem ... a very recent change broke open panels so they
> > returned the wrong value, causing attempts to open and create files,
> > projects etc to fail.  I just encountered the same problem when
> > playing with the theme editor, and I've committed a fix for that, so
> > updating from svn should fix that issue.
>
> Thanks a lot. I now get the main window when I create a new project.  
> However,
> the main window does not display any icons (see attached screen shot).
>
> To make sure there is nothing wrong with my installation i deleted  
> the whole
> /opt/GNUstep directory and installed it again. I also moved ~/ 
> GNUstep out of
> the way.
>
> There is some output when I start Project Center:
>
> $ openapp ProjectCenter
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.763 ProjectCenter[18264] Defaults path
> '/home/michi/GNUstep/Defaults' did not exist - created it
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.783 ProjectCenter[18264] Creating empty user  
> defaults
> database
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.813 ProjectCenter[18264] Font not found Courier
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.813 ProjectCenter[18264] The font specified for
> NSUserFixedPitchFont, Courier, can't be found.
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.851 ProjectCenter[18264] Font not found Courier
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.851 ProjectCenter[18264] The font specified for
> NSUserFixedPitchFont, Courier, can't be found.
> 2009-10-11 21:32:02.617 ProjectCenter[18264] Font not found Courier
> 2009-10-11 21:32:02.617 ProjectCenter[18264] The font specified for
> NSUserFixedPitchFont, Courier, can't be found.
> 2009-10-11 21:32:04.450 ProjectCenter[18264] windowDidBecomeKey:  
> project
> Converter
> 2009-10-11 21:32:18.674 ProjectCenter[18264] windowDidBecomeKey:  
> project
> Converter
> 2009-10-11 21:32:21.093 ProjectCenter[18264] windowDidBecomeKey:  
> project
> Converter
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with the missing icons.

Me neither.

You are using svn trunk ... which will always get you the latest bugs  
as well as the latest features, and while trunk is working fine for me  
any apparently everyone else, it could easily have a system specific  
problem with your setup (either because one of the libraries it  
depends upon is buggy, or because there is a bug in the way gnustep  
works with the library versions on your machine).

In that situation, the best thing to do is try reverting to an earlier  
version ... I recently made major changes in the base library to  
remove obsolete (but pervasive) code, and that is likely to have  
broken a few bits and pieces, so I'd start by trying reverting base to  
an earlier version.
I'd suggest trying a version of base from 1st Oct to see if that fixes  
things.

If that doesn't work, you can try earlier gui and backend versions  
too.   You can then narrow things down to find out which change broke  
things on your system, and we can then deduce what the problem is and  
why it effects your system but not other peoples.  Possibly it's best  
to go right back to an official release though ... as a sanity check  
to be sure that the problem is actually in gnustep rather than one of  
the system libraries.