Re: Qdir.mkpath()

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

On 08/19/2012 06:32 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 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

Hi,

I can confirm the above bug (with the same workaround).

Regards,
Laurent