[Ifeffit] Bug report - autosave on mac

[Bruce Ravel]

Jean-Baptiste,

I still don't have a clear idea what the problem is, but I gave it some 
thought yesterday while sitting on a train.

I would suggest simply deleting the $HOME/.horae directory and letting 
Athena start from scratch.  You'll lose your list of recently accessed 
files and any modifications to the configuration you may have made.  But 
I can think of at least one recent situation where Athena got confused 
by a corrupted file in that folder.  Maybe that's the problem....?

B


On 12/09/2014 04:46 AM, Jean-Baptiste ABBE wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I wanted to report a really annoying problem for mac users. I’m running
> Athena on my laptop, on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) with macports. I had to
> install also quartzX11 to be able to plot data (without it, it couldn’t
> find the DISPLAY value), but otherwise evrything went smoothly for a few
> days.
> Then the first bug occured. I wasn’t able anymore to select any point on
> the plotting area to do normalization, I had to set the value in the
> boxes instead. It was annoying, but I could manage that. But now I have
> a much more disturbing issue.
> Athena once crashed, (in the terminal, it was sait « Terminated 15 »),
> and every time I tried to launch it again, the same thing happens :
> 1) athena launch, a little bit longer than usual
> 2) a box appear to give me choice to recover data by importing it from
> autosave or not
> 3) I can’t select anaything and the rainbow wheel of death appears.
> After a few hours, nothing changes… and I have to terminate the programm
> manually.
>
> So I do some search on the internet and found thoses topics on the
> mailing list, and I tried thoses solutions :
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg04539.html
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit%40millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg04514.html
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/msg04514.html>
>
> I tried to find the autosave file : nothing
> I tried to uninstall and reinstall macports : nothing
> I tried to uninstall macports and install the demeter-devel : nothing
> In demeter-devel, i tried to modify the athena.demeter_config file, by
> changing the autosave prompt box value from true to false, and despite
> being admin on ma mac, I’m not able to change antything in the file. So
> nothing works at this moment.
>
> I will try again other solutions, but I will gladly accept any kind of
> help to solve my issues.
>
>
> Thank you
>
> ABBE J-Baptiste
>
>
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