Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:16:28 +0200
From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net>
Subject: [Gretl-users] Re: gretl crashed when reformatting the model
table
To: gretl-users@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