Re: [Gramps-bugs] gramps error. crash when changing options

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

Raphael,

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:04:03PM +0100, Raphael Ackermann wrote:
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> after importing data from GEDCOM I get a warning in the terminal window:
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> ** (gramps:7677): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to=20
> pango_layout_set_tex
> t()
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> I can then save the database and quit gramps. Start gramps again and=20
> open my saved database. About halfway through I get an error message,=20
> something like that:
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> error reading ../../gramps.data
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> And after opening the whole database I've got the following output in my=
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> terminal window:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/gramps/ReadXML.py", line 291, in loadData
>    parser.parse(xml_file)
>  File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsParser.py", line 198, in parse
>    p.ParseFile(file)
> ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 129841, column 254

Would you be willing to send the GEDCOM to me (not to the list) so that
I can find out what the problem is?

> Then trying to edit preferences and getting the following error message:
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> The Application "gramps" has quit unexpectedly.
> You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.  Or=
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> you can restart the application right now.
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> And there is no new output in the terminal window.
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> I can reproduce this behaviour by starting gramps again and editing the=
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> preferences. Both times I was editing things in the display category.

I suspect this is related to the corrupted database in the first place.
But just in case, could you please specify when exactly it fails?
I.e. what do you need to do in the Preferences dialog to get a crash?

Thanks,
Alex

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