Re: error

[Paul Johnson]

Hm.  Unless you  reformat your hard disk, I don't guess just 
reinstalling Windows or Swarm will have any effect, because whatever has 
happened does not get undone.  Since we know swarm itself does work, the 
problem has to be something in your environment PATH,  SWARMDIR, or it 
has to be in your bash settings.

You have not mentioned if Swarm models written in Objective-C still 
work.  That might give us a hint.

And it would be best to try to remember what changed to make this 
problem appear in the first place.  I bet it was an update of Cygwin or 
some other windows program that changed your settings.

Also, get into a cygwin terminal window and do some diagnostics.  type 
"env" and see if the Swarm/bin directory is at the front of the path. 
See if SWARMDIR or SWARMHOME is set correctly.

Figure out what .bashrc or .bash_login files are being used to start 
your terminal, look in there to see what might be wrong.

I recall in reading in the SwarmFaq that you can diagnose troubles with 
your java environment by running

eval javaswarm

that will print out your environment.  Look it over. You can just 
directly export those yourself and run swarm with the java command.
James Marshall recently posted several notes about the Windows 
Environment and the bare minimums needed, you might search for his 
messages in swarm.  Although the "face page" of the mail archives 
appears to stop in May, the archives do still continue after that, and 
you can still search or open months ifyou type in the right directory name.

pj

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Fred Wan wrote:
> I don't think that's cool at all... I've reinstalled swarm, java and even
> W2000, but I still get this weird message... Any suggestions would be
> welcome.
>
> Fred.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Paul E Johnson
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:44 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: error
> >
> >
> > Cool.  I don't have any way to guess what you have done to your
> > computer, but it sounds nasty.
> >
> >
> > Fred Wan wrote:
> >
> > > The error occurs in main directly after initialization of the swarm
> > >
> > > Globals.env.initSwarm(...)
> > >
> > > and it happens in all the swarm projects I have written and
> >
> > tried to run
> >
> > > (which are a lot), including in older versions as well as
> >
> > on the swarm
> >
> > > examples provided on the swarm download site, none of which
> >
> > use conformsTo.
> >
> > > Also the line
> > >
> > > *** function: nil_method(), file:
> >
> > /src/Swarm/swarm/src/defobj/internal.m,
> >
> > > suggests that it happens sowhere in the swarm code itself...


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