[Scilab-users] 6.1.1 startup error

[Stefan Du Rietz]

Hello and many thanks for your replies!

Samuel,
Unfortunately, deleting SCIHOME/configuration.xml did not help (I have a 
vague memory that it worked previously). I agree with all your later 
comments.

Stéphane,
my changed line
<Profile name="scilab" version="6.1.1">
gets replaced by
<Profile name="scilab">
so it did not help.

Clément,
Deleting all the configuration files helped, BUT THEN ALL MY OWN FOLDERS 
WERE DELETED (a regression?)! Therefore all the changes I had made in my 
functions were lost!

Regards
Stefan


On 2021-09-22 17:35, Clément David wrote:
> 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
> 
>     <HelpBrowserindex="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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