[Scilab-users] 6.1.1 startup error

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Hi Stefan,

Did you really, as suggested Samuel, copy the content of your previous 
6.1 SCIHOME into the 6.1.1 SCIHOME, which could explain the initial 
error messge ?

S.

Le 23/09/2021 à 11:20, Stefan Du Rietz a écrit :
> 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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Stéphane Mottelet
Ingénieur de recherche
EA 4297 Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable
Département Génie des Procédés Industriels
Sorbonne Universités - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
CS 60319, 60203 Compiègne cedex
Tel : +33(0)344234688
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