Re: default environment variables

[Willem Rein Oudshoorn]

Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> writes:

> On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:15  pm, Travis Griggs wrote:
>
> > 2003-02-27 14:12:25.379 make_services[2117] File NSDictionary.m:
> > 504. In [GSMutableDictionary -initWithContentsOfFile:] Contents of
> > file '/home/travis/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults' does not
> > contain a dictionary
> 
> Either your '/home/travis/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults' file is
> corrupt or there is something seriously wrong (in a way I've never
> heard of) with the software.  Your best bet would simply be to delete
> the '/home/travis/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults', and if that was
> the problem things should then work ok.  However, I'd like to see a
> copy of the file in case I can figure out how it got corrupted
> (assuming this is not just a case of you having edited it manually),
> please send me (not the list) a copy before you delete it.
> 
I remember seeing this problem myself a few montsh ago. 
The strange thing was that the file .GNUstepDefaults looked
ok.   It contained 

{}

or something similar.  
I found it rather difficult to fix.  
You had to make sure that NO GNUstep applications
(Including gdomap + other services) were running 
before deleting the file.  Otherwise I it will
be recreated with the bad content.

Note:  This is from memory and I am not sure
about the details.  But after fixing it I
never had the problems again.

Wim Oudshoorn.