Never had a problem with the GUI parsing project files. No issues with
symbolic links.
I have generally found basex very reliable but never try to update the
installed version; it's always move the old, unpack the new.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 08:09 Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for your assessments. So maybe we should ensure that every file and
> directory will only be parsed once.
>
> Did anyone of you have problems with the automatic parsing of project
> files in the BaseX GUI, or with symbolic links in particular?
>
>
>
>
>
> Am Mi., 23. Jan. 2019, 09:12 hat Marco Lettere <m.lett...@gmail.com>
> geschrieben:
>
>> Same for us over here. The ability to follow symlinks is a very powerful
>> feature that we use to externalize folders (data, restxq for instance). So
>> please don't remove it altogether!
>> M.
>>
>> On 22/01/19 23:50, Graydon Saunders wrote:
>>
>> I've been handling updates by making data/ a symbolic link to a data
>> directory that's a sibling of the basex directory. (Move the old, unpack
>> the new, go into new and replace data/ with a symbolic link up and over.)
>>
>> Would hate to see that stop working.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 17:36 Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good to hear that! I can’t recollect that something particular has
>>> changed in version 9.1.2, regarding the scanning of project files, but I’ll
>>> have some thoughts how we can trace and interrupt such loops (or ignore
>>> symbolic links instead).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Di., 22. Jan. 2019, 23:22 hat Bridger Dyson-Smith <
>>> bdysonsm...@gmail.com> geschrieben:
>>>
>>>> Glad that helped :)
>>>>
>>>> I see this when I start from a fresh install vs expanding the ZIP into
>>>> the same directory.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 5:17 PM Rick Graham <rickhg1...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Bridger!
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed, I quit basexgui and manually edited .basexgui to set the
>>>>> project directory to a newly created empty directory. basexgui seems
>>>>> normal/stable after that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I rarely, as in almost never, use wine but I didn't have this issue
>>>>> with previous versions of BaseX. Something seems unexpected here.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:04 PM Bridger Dyson-Smith <
>>>>> bdysonsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Rick, et al,
>>>>>> I think (but am not 100% sure) that the GUI defaults to looking
>>>>>> through your home directory on startup. So, somewhere in
>>>>>> `~/rick/.wine/dosdevices/...` you have symbolic links that are looped.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think you might be able to circumvent this problem by finding
>>>>>> `.basexgui` - it would probably be close to wherever you started the GUI
>>>>>> from on your filesystem. I think you can edit some of the PATHS there and
>>>>>> that may help?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again, I'm not sure. HTH!
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Bridger
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Rick Graham <rickhg1...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The command-line seemed to be operating normally.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What exactly is/are my project directories?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I attached to the running GUI instance `strace -f -e trace=stat -p
>>>>>>> 13368` and it has infinite repetitions of:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [pid 13436]
>>>>>>>> stat("/home/rick/.wine/dosdevices/z:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone0/device/subsystem/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:75/subsystem/devices/PNP0C0A:02",
>>>>>>>> 0x7f7beb2796e0) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What's going on here?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:21 PM Christian Grün <
>>>>>>> christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>> org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:167)
>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>> org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)
>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>> org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)
>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>> org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Looks like a endless loop that is caused by parsing the files in
>>>>>>>> your project directory. Do you possibly have any symbolic links?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can you reproduce the problem with a completely fresh BaseX zip
>>>>>>>> archive?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>
