[Gretl-users] A strange behavior of gretl with graphs.
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:16:28 +0200
From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net>
Subject: [Gretl-users] Re: gretl crashed when reformatting the model
table
To: gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it
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Am 20.04.20 um 10:06 schrieb Fred Engst:
> Hi Allen and others,
> Item 1:
> Today I found a repeatable crash.
> Gretl crashed either
> 1) when I open a session file and tried to add more models to the model table and
then tried to open the table, or
> 2) After clearing the model table, putting a few model in it, then tried to reformat
the table after it was opened.
>
> Attached is the crash report.
Is this with a very recent snapshot? Then it could be fallout from
another fix that Allin applied in that area because of another Mac problem.
> Item 2:
> I have encountered a strange behavior of gretl.
> Once I create a gnupot, I can zoom to the area that I wanted to see.
> However, once I save the graph as an icon, any further zooming attempt will result in
an error:
> "Failed to open file '/Users/fred/.gretl/gretltmp.png': No such file or
directory”.
> so I closed the graph, and then open it by clicking on the icon, once more I can
zoom.
> Is this to be expected?
Certainly not expected. Is it a new problem or have you just tried it
for the first time?
thanks
sven
Hi Sven,
Sorry for not responding to your post earlier. The whole "Gretl-users Digest, Vol
159, Issue 10" was in my junk-mail box before I rescued it.
Back to your question, yes, I just tried it for the first time.
Today I had 3 instance of gretl opened, each with a different dataset.
In one of them, when I tried to save a graph to icon view, the error was:
"/Users/fred/.gretl/gpttmp.CoumQp: No such file or directory”.
On another instance of gretl, when I tried to save a graph, the error was:
"/Users/fred/.gretl/gpttmp.BvLVkQ: No such file or directory”.
On the 3rd instance of gretl, an attempt to save a graph resulted in:
"/Users/fred/.gretl/gpttmp.ndV74m: No such file or directory”.
So I opened a new instance of gretl, and it worked fine in saving a graph to icon view.
In this instance of gretl, my attempt to zoom after I had saved the graph to icon view
failed with the same error message:
"Failed to open file '/Users/fred/.gretl/gretltmp.png': No such file or
directory”.
This time, I closed the graph, and double clicked the graph icon, and then the zoom
worked.
So I went back to one of the 3 instances where I wasn’t able to save a graph to icon view.
This time, instead of trying to save the graph I produced yesterday, I created a new
graph, and it worked.
I tried in other instances of gretl also, and I was able to save all newly created graphs,
but not the ones I created before.
Could it be that once my mac goes to sleep, something changed when it wakes up?
Best,
Fred
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