Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

walt wrote:
> On 02/02/2013 06:45 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>> (gtkam:10897): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
>> gtk_file_chooser_default_set_current_name: assertion `impl->action ==
>> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE || impl->action ==
>> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER' failed
> Now that one looks suspicious. The only idea that comes to mind is that
> gtkam for some reason is trying to save to some place you don't have
> write privileges, like / or /run, maybe.  That's where I would trot out
> strace, which will allow you to see exactly where gtkam is trying to
> write when it fails.
>
> The other trick I use is to create a new user with a new home directory
> and try running gtkam from that account.  Often I find that the new user
> doesn't see the same bug as my normal user, so at least I know the problem
> is somewhere in my home directory, and strace will narrow the scope of
> my debugging even more.
>
> The "-y" and "-e file" flags for strace are very handy for this kind of
> debugging problem.
>
>

Just so happens I have a test user.  I logged out and then logged in
with the test user.  It did the same thing.  I can say, I have never
even tried to use gtkam as that user.  I told it to save some pics to
/home/dale2/Desktop and it saved them to /home/dale2/ again.  It still
ignores my settings. 

I tried something else too.  I have a separate partition for my
backups.  I changed the permissions for it and tried to save some pics
to that, it still tries to save to /home/dale/ and even complains that
they already exist, since they are their from the last time.  So, saving
to /backup doesn't work either.  It still wants to save to /home/dale no
matter what I do. 

So, since it does this as two different users, is this a program error? 
I'm going to google some more but not real sure what to look for.  I'm
also going to check the group file to see if something has been added
there that I need to be a member of.  I'm going to try a older version
of gtkam too. 

Any more ideas?

Thanks.

Dale

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