On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:12:19 +0200 Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Tonight there was a power outage in my home where I have a RaspberryPi > 4B development system with Lazarus 2.0.8 and Fpc 3.0.4. > > When it happened the system was running including Lazarus. > Now when I start Lazarus I get to a dialog saying: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Upgrade configuration > THere is already a configuration from version prior to 2.0.8 in > /home/pi/.lazarus_2.0.8 > The old configuration will be upgraded. > If you want to use two different Lazarus versions you must > start the second Lazarus with the command line parameter > primary-config-path or pcp > .... > > [Abort] [Upgrade] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Obviously my start desktop file for Lazarus specifies to use pcp as I > have several versions of Lazarus installed. > > In order not to break anything I used Abort and started checking the > content of my config dir and comparing to another 2.0.8 version. > > What I found is that there are 3 files in the problem dir that have > suspicious timestamps/sizes: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 306 Aug 24 03:59 EditorMacros.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 0 Jan 1 1970 environmentoptions.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2883 Aug 24 03:59 inputhistory.xml > > In the other Lazarus 2.0.8 config dir (set to use fpc 3.2) these files > are as follows: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 9735 Jun 21 17:13 environmentoptions.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 712 Jun 21 17:13 inputhistory.xml > > EditorMacros.xml is missing in the other dir. > > > What to do? It seems like the environmentoptions.xml got hosed in the > power outage... > > Can I copy this file from an RPi3B where I have installed the same > versions of Lazarus and Fpc in the same file locations (I use the same > install scripts on all RPi:s)? Yes. After start fix the paths in Tools / Options / Env. / Files to point to the right fpc. > I really do not want to lose any of what I worked on last night before > I stopped at 00:31 after finally fixing a persistent bug. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
