Re: Qdir.mkpath()

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/18/2012 08:53 PM, Ed Meyer wrote:
> I'm trying to run the gui but it never gets beyond the opening "Welcome
> to Octave"
> window - clicking "finish" just creates a new instance of the window. I
> traced it to
> resource-manager.cc:113 where Qdir.mkpath() is supposed to create
> ~/.config/octave/qt-settings
> but it seems it does not get called after the Qdir constructor; I don't
> have qt libs with
> debug symbols but it still should have showed up stepping with gdb - any
> clues?
>
> The gui works ok if I manually create ~/.config/octave/qt-settings

That sounds like the application doesn't have the privilege to create 
the file.  Is there some way to verify that "~" is being decoded 
correctly as your account root as opposed to, say, the "su" root.  I 
guess it must be if it finds the file when you manually create it.

Dan