Re: problem with backup recovery mechanism, Amaya v3.2 Solaris 2

> Hi,
> 
> It seems like there is a problem with the automatic recovery mechanism in
> Amaya (v3.2 binary for Solaris 2). I opened a document of mine, did some
> changes, saved to disk, then tried some modifications that crashed Amaya.
> When I re-started Amaya, I got a dialogue box saying:
> 
>   Your previous session failed. Do you want to reload your backup document?
> 
> I accepted the reload, but instead of the document I had open at the time of 
> the crash, I got the default page that Amaya is configured to open on startup.

It seems that detected the previous crash but the temporary file was not saved
successfully. As it cannot read the saved file, it displays the Home page.

> If it is of interest, I was doing the following when Amaya crashed:
> 
> - I selected a whole table row (using the ESC key twice)
> - I copied it (Ctrl C) into the paste buffer
> - I placed the insertion point at the end of the row after which I wanted to 
>   insert the paste buffer
> - I pasted the paste buffer (Ctrl Y), which caused Amaya to crash with a 
>   "Thot irrecoverable error"
> 
> I was not able to produce the error a second time.

I tried to do the same experiment but like you I was not able to reproduce the 
bug.

> By the way, the File/Open_document... dialogue box still doesn't display all
> the directories in the Solaris 2 version; the list of subdirectories is 
> truncated. This might be a Motif-related problem, though, as the same 
> directory shows just fine on the Win98 version.

We use a system function for getting the list of files and directories and the
bug is in that function which stop the list as soon as it meets a link.
We need to use a different function but as we plan to move to GTK, we didn't
invest time in this change.

Regards

-- 
     Irene.

Received on Tuesday, 11 July 2000 04:00:36 UTC