[Scilab-users] 6.1.1 startup error

[Clément David]

Hi Stéphane, hi Samuel, hi all,

The idea behind SCIHOME is to have a version specific directory to avoid any issues when upgrading from Scilab versions to Scilab versions ; IMHO implementing an upgrade for files stored into this directory is for me a non-sense ; the upgrade could be done manually (as Samuel described) for the few users that copy the files between SCIHOMEs.

Clément

From: users <users-bounces at lists.scilab.org> On Behalf Of Stéphane Mottelet
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 5:19 PM
To: users at lists.scilab.org
Subject: Re: [Scilab-users] 6.1.1 startup error


Hi,

The version of Scilab which generated the configuration.xml should be contained in some attribute of the top level element, i.e.

    <Profile name="scilab" version="6.1.1">

This would allow to trigger a proper upgrade of the file when the Scilab version differs or a regeneration if the file cannot be upgraded.

S.
Le 22/09/2021 à 17:10, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
Hello Stefan,

This kind of error might arise when the content of the SCIHOME directory of a previous scilab version is copied into the SCIHOME of the current 6.1.1 version, for instance to avoid respecifying all users preferences.
Unfortunately, when the template of some configuration file is changed from one version to the next one, the file must be regenerated.

The issue should be fixed either by deleting the SCIHOME/configuration.xml file, and regenerating it automatically from scratch (quit Scilab and rerun it),
or by editing it and changing or adding the line just before the </Profile> one, for instance with

<HelpBrowser index="scatter3d" lang="en_US"/>

</Profile>
Regards
Samuel

Le 22/09/2021 à 12:08, Stefan Du Rietz a écrit :
Hello,
when starting Scilab 6.1.1 with

  $ /usr/local/scilab/scilab-6.1.1/bin/scilab

I get the message:

Startup execution:
  loading initial environment
at line    81 of function xmlGetValues       ( /usr/local/scilab/scilab-6.1.1/share/scilab/modules/xml/macros/xmlGetValues.sci line 94 )
at line    22 of function help               ( /usr/local/scilab/scilab-6.1.1/share/scilab/modules/helptools/macros/help.sci line 34 )
at line    14 of function helpbrowser_update ( /usr/local/scilab/scilab-6.1.1/share/scilab/modules/helptools/macros/helpbrowser_update.sci line 25 )

xmlGetValues: Invalid attribute name: lang.

in Ubuntu Linux after a successful (apart from this) installation from
scilab-6.1.1.bin.linux-x86_64.tar.gz

What can I do?

Regards
Stefan




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