Re: [Rosegarden-user] error when parsing autoload.rg

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Monday 19 Jul 2004 2:22 am, wir...@ui... wrote:
> Hi.. i just upgraded to 4.9.0.8, and now i have a big
> problem. Whenever I started Rosegarden, it will pop up a
> message:
>
> Error when parsing file
> '/usr/share/apps/rosegarden/autoload.rg': "error occurred
> while parsing element at line 1, column 1"
>
> then i cannot realy do anything. Somehow I'm not able to use
> that pencil button. 

I have actually seen this problem recently.  It happened when I tried 
to make a test build of Rosegarden against a newer set of Qt and KDE 
libraries than my usual ones.  I built the whole Qt/KDE shebang and 
put it in a special /opt/kde32 directory, then built RG against that, 
and then tried to run it, and the above was the result.

The problem was that it failed to find the KDE gunzip application 
helper, to decode the zipped .rg file format.  Rosegarden is nothing 
without its default autoload.rg file, so if it can't find the helper, 
it's stuffed.  (Even if it didn't need the autoload.rg file, you 
still wouldn't be able to save or load anything subsequently.)

Probably the cause for me was building against KDE 3.2 and then 
running in a KDE 3.1 environment, but I'm not entirely sure.  (There 
were various warning messages on stdout: "Trying to open ksycoca 
from /home/cannam/.kde/cache-amanita/ksycoca... 	Could not open 
ksycoca."  That directory doesn't even exist.)   So, without knowing 
more about your setup I can't say for sure whether you have the same 
problem and I really don't know what the fix might be, but it's 
certainly exactly the same symptom.


Chris