Re: Serious? bug saving - always crashes on second save

On 4 Mar 2012, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> On 4 Mar, Roger Darlington wrote in message
> <ef56486b52.rogerarm@rogerarm.freeuk.com>:

>> No matter which Netsurf I try (and I have tried r13506 and r12638) Netsurf
>> always crashes just as I try to save the second page.
>>
>> It saves the first OK.
>>
>> But always crashes when the 'save' box comes up for saving a second page.

> Are you *absolutely* sure that you're running a recent version? That sounds
> very much like a bug that was fixed a while back, relating to setting up the
> save path when the dialogue was opened.

Hi Steve,

Yes, I am sure; I wouldn't have been able to get the r version number
otherwise...

>> Maybe it makes a difference which site I am saving from?

> Maybe. Something else to try: save the first page to the root of your hard
> disc (to keep the path short), then try to save a second page. Does that
> still crash?

> Also, could you put this on the bug tracker with a zipped copy of the full
> logfile? Unless someone else looks into it, it will be a couple of weeks
> before I have the time to do it and I'll forget otherwise.

Well, I downloaded another new one, r13506, and that doesn't do it.

The only thing that has changed is that I re-booted VA_RPC, so it
seems to be a false alarm. Sorry.

But I am sure it was crashing the same way as the one of about 6
months old, which is the one I use permanently now, because new ones
still dont do f/8 to load the page when it is in frames. They only
f8-load a fixed page from a frame, and not the page the mouse has just
been clicked on. So that's why I am still using one of 6 - 8 months
old.

So it is possible that remnants of the 6-month old version which
crashed repeatedly (and was re-run repeatedly) were interferring with
the newly downloaded new one. I crashed the new version 8 times before
writing.

But, as I say, the new version is working fine wrt saving (but still
not wrt f/8-ing in frames).

So, apologies again, I should have re-booted the 'pooter between
versions.

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Cheers
Roger
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