Re: [Gretl-users] A little bug that prevents gretl to start if the working directory is missing
Ok, it was very difficult to reproduce the bug...
This is what you must do:
- create a directory in a place where gretl cannot recreate it (e.g. a
pen drive);
- open gretl and set that directory as the working directory;
- close gretl;
- remove the pen-drive
- DELETE the default directory (~/gretl)
- open gretl
Gretl first tries to recreate the directory (and it fails), then tries
to open ~/gretl. If the latter is missing, it does not recreate it but
returns a segmentation fault...
Bye
Giuseppe
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:47 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Giuseppe Vittucci wrote:
> I have gretl 1.9.4 running on Ubuntu 10.04.
> I found a little bug.
> If the working directory is changed in gretl, the program closed and
> then the directory deleted, when launched gretl returns a segmentation
> fault error.
> For the program to start one needs first to recreate the missing
> directory.
Hmm, I can't replicate that. If the specified working directory is
missing, gretl tries to create it, and if that fails it drops back
to the "default working directory", which on Linux would be
~/gretl. I'll try on Ubuntu 10.04 and see what happens.
Allin Cottrell
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