Thanks, deleting ~/.Scilab did the trick. Sorry for assuming it would be .scilab, I didn't read Calixte email carefully enough.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Sylvestre Ledru < [email protected]> wrote: > It is .Scilab, not .scilab (I know we should switch to full lower case). > > It is not part of our priority as you can see with the date of our bug > report here: > http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3386 > > Especially since it won't break some works without bringing much... > > S > > > On 21/09/2012 15:28, Guillaume Horel wrote: > > Well unfortunately I don't and it's causing a bug... I'm trying to > > understand why it was not created. I assume there is a piece of code that > > creates it at startup if the directory doesn't exist right? Can anybody > > reproduce the crash at startup it if they delete their .scilab directory? > > > > Thanks, > > Guillaume > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Calixte Denizet < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Guillaume, > >> > >> Normally you should have a directory ~/.Scilab. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> C > >> > >> > >> On 21/09/2012 15:19, Guillaume Horel wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for the tip. Actually, I didn't have a SCIHOME directory > (~/.scilab > >> didn't exist). If I launch scilab with > >> SCIHOME="~/.scilab" scilab > >> it starts fine, and it saves some configuration files in there. However > >> even for subsequent invocations, I need to set SCIHOME in the > environment, > >> otherwise scilab doesn't launch, so looks like the SCIHOME variable is > >> never initialized. I'll check if there was anything in SCIHOME when > scilab > >> didn't crash before commit a715ab13a22. > >> > >> Guillaume > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Vincent COUVERT < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Just remove your SCIHOME directory and Scilab will start. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Vincent > >>> Le 21/09/12 02:43, Guillaume Horel a écrit : > >>> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> in preparation for the 5.4 release, I've been compiling trunk pretty > >>> regularly on gentoo. Everything was working fine until recently. > However > >>> scilab doesn't even start now. It compiles and install fine, but bombs > at > >>> startup. If I launch it from the command line, I just see the following > >>> exception printed: > >>> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException > >>> > >>> I've tracked it down to this commit (first commit when it started to > >>> break): > >>> > >>> commit a715ab13a22b5e53d6d4f811ea44a24770ba7097 > >>> Author: Calixte DENIZET <[email protected]> > >>> Date: Wed Sep 5 11:40:59 2012 +0200 > >>> > >>> Bug 11838 fixed: Maximized state of a window was not saved in > quitting > >>> > >>> The commit seems innocuous enough, but it completely breaks scilab for > >>> me. Any idea what might cause this? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Guillaume > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> dev mailing [email protected]:// > lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> dev mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev mailing [email protected]:// > lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Calixte Denizet > >> Software Development Engineer > >> ----------------------------------------------------------- > >> Scilab Enterprises > >> 143bis rue Yves Le Coz - 78000 Versailles, Francehttp:// > www.scilab-enterprises.com > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > -- > ----------------------------- > Sylvestre Ledru > Operations manager > Community manager > ----------------------------- > Scilab Enterprises > http://www.scilab-enterprises.com/ > http://www.scilab.org/ > ----------------------------- >
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