[Gretl-users] Re: A strange and seems to be random behavior of gretl with graphs.

> > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:16:28 +0200 > From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net <mailto:svetosch@gmx.net>> > Subject: [Gretl-users] Re: gretl crashed when reformatting the model > table > To: gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it <mailto:gretl-users@gretlml.univpm.it> > Message-ID: <c0e1f066-8108-bf4b-2976-70f73c26dfc2(a)gmx.net <mailto:c0e1f066-8108-bf4b-2976-70f73c26dfc2@gmx.net>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > 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