On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:25:42 +0100 Bo Berglund via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> Lazarus 2.0.8 on Raspberry Pi 4 with FPC 3.0.4 > > I have discussed this topic here before but I would like to know what > is causing the problem... > It happened again today; when I started Lazarus I just got the main > bar plus the code editor, all other windows were not there. > > Since I have been hit by this before I keep a backup of the pcp dir > files in a tar archive so I could extract the environmentoptions.xml > file from 2020-12-23 (with Lazarus closed of course) and replace the > now bogus environmentoptions.xml in the pcp dir and all was OK again. > > Last time it happened I checked the environmentoptions.xml before > fixing it and it was all blank, just a series of #0 chars. I never saw that. Sounds like a buffer overflow, invalid pointer thing. You could compile the ide with -gh (heaptrc). > So what I am wondering now is what would cause Lazarus to write such > a file anytime? > It seems like normally Lazarus should just read the file unless a > change is done in some options and then the write would be done at > that specific time. It stores some desktop settings too. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
