Re: gworkspace crashes on startup

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Friday, April 08, 2011 11:06:12 am Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 8 Apr 2011, at 09:48, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> >> 2011-04-08 07:41:12.269 fswatcher[2502] register client 2
> >> 2011-04-08 07:41:13.108 GWorkspace[923] File NSPropertyList.m: 1012. In
> >> id parsePlItem(pldata *) Missing semicolon in dictionary at line 11
> >> char 176 2011-04-08 07:41:13.113 GWorkspace[923] File NSPropertyList.m:
> >> 1012. In id parsePlItem(pldata *) Missing semicolon in dictionary at
> >> line 11 char 186 2011-04-08 07:41:13.118 GWorkspace[923] File
> >> NSPropertyList.m: 1012. In id parsePlItem(pldata *) Missing semicolon
> >> in dictionary at line 11 char 198
> > 
> > I have never seen these errors.
> 
> They are warning about errors in a property list ... so they are data
> related rather than a bun in the software, any you probably haven't seen
> them simply because you aren't trying to parse any incorrectly formatted
> property lists.  The errors should actually be harmless in GNUstep (the
> code will just report the error and continue), but would cause a parse
> failure on OSX ... so the files containing the bad property lists should
> be corrected.
> 
> The bad property list would look something like this:
> 
> {
>   key1 = val1;
>   key2 = val2;
>   ...
>   keyN = valN
> }
> 
> Note that the semicolon after valN is missing ... the default gnustep
> behavior (unless OSX compatibility is enabled) is to treat the closing '}'
> as implying a semicolon so that the plist parse can complete.

unfortunately, gworkspace installs a lot of plist files. But I think it can 
also be Info-gnustep.plist files from any other installed application. Will 
take me a while to find which one this is, in case there is no debugging 
default that I can set, which shows me the filename.

Sebastian

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