[scilab-Users] Re: Error: can't read debugstate: no such variable

[Perry Hargrave]

it seems I don't have ~/.Scilab/scilab-<build>/.SciPadPreferences.tcl

'slocate SciPadPreferences' returns nothing at all.



Enrico Segre wrote:
> [resending - listserver down during the weekend?]
> 
>> i've x86 (core duo) with arch linux.
>>
>> i've just built scilab-se-build-4_21422 (a build of 4.1.2 wouldn't work 
>> at all) with these options:
> 
> I confirm that I can build BUILD4 on a multicore x64 system. I got
> r24233, for the record. The only problem known to me specific of x64,
> which is not in x32, is bug 2394/2448.
> 
> I can reproduce your error though, if I tamper with the file
> ~/.Scilab/scilab-4.1.2/.SciPadPreferences.tcl and write there an invalid
> number for the entry tabsizeinchars (say -5). This causes a complaint in
> the scilab shell analogous to yours (the decimal number in the error
> message is slightly different, but I think this is a result of the
> particular screen metrics), an apparent success in bringing up the main
> editor window, but a tk_messageBox complaining about debugstate all the
> time subsequently, and an unusable scipad. This story about debugstate
> is understandable since the initialization of scipad couldn't complete
> as it should have in first instance, and doesn't trouble me.
> 
> So, I suggest you to check what happened with the .SciPadPreferences.tcl
> file - if you edited it just correct it (or remove it, it will be
> recreated with defaults). If that is not the case please come back,
> we'll see why it happens that way.
> 
> hth, Enrico
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