Re: Broken directory

On 30 Jun, Christopher Dewhurst wrote in message
<0f86116453.crisPi@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com>:

> In message <mpro.mp5l7i03cirzk01ob.lists@stevefryatt.org.uk>
> Steve Fryatt <lists@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly
> > isn't very happy. I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with
> > DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system.
>
> thanks for the tips. Running DiscKnight does indeed report errors within
> !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf. I think an investment in the full version may
> be in order (I think the "Repair" option is disabled on the free version).
>
> Although RISC OS threw a wobbler in the process,renaming
> Choices.WWW.Netsurf to "zzzz" seemed to work for the time being.

Just be aware that if your disc map is corrupted, then you've no real idea
if it's saving new or modified files over existing files that you'd quite
like to keep. If DiscKnight is reporting errors, personally I would stop
using the system until the map had been fixed.

--
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Re: Broken directory

In message <mpro.mp5l7i03cirzk01ob.lists@stevefryatt.org.uk>
Steve Fryatt <lists@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

> On 28 Jun, John Williams wrote in message
> <53630be066JohnRW@ukgateway.net>:

>> In article <7f76f76253.crisPi@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com>,
>> Christopher Dewhurst <cdewhurst2010@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
>>> Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
>>> looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports "Broken directory" if
>>> I try to delete or move it.
>>
>>> Any way out?
>>
>> If you can rename it to, say, "zzzz" so it gets put out of the way at the
>> bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to
>> populate.

> Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly
> isn't very happy. I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with
> DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system.

thanks for the tips. Running DiscKnight does indeed report errors
within !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf. I think an investment in the full
version may be in order (I think the "Repair" option is disabled on
the free version).

Although RISC OS threw a wobbler in the process,renaming
Choices.WWW.Netsurf to "zzzz" seemed to work for the time being.

thanks,
Chris
--

Christopher Dewhurst

Re: Broken directory

In article <20130629072100.GC8610@pepperfish.net>,
Rob Kendrick <rjek@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:45:04PM +0000, Christopher Dewhurst wrote:
> > Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
> > Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
> > looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports "Broken directory"
> > if I try to delete or move it.
> >
> > Any way out?
> >
> > (Using NS 3.1 Dev #1264 on Raspberry Pi but I think the problem has
> > been around for a week or two)

> Your file system is broken. This is a RISC OS problem as FileCore is
> delicate to crashes and power outages. Either rename it out of the way,
> reformat/restart the whole thing, or invest in Dave Ruck's excellent
> !Disknight to fix the problem.

Very well worthwhile. It's only £10.

http://www.armclub.org.uk/products/discknight/

Cheers,

--
Chris

Re: Broken directory

On 28 Jun, John Williams wrote in message
<53630be066JohnRW@ukgateway.net>:

> In article <7f76f76253.crisPi@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com>,
> Christopher Dewhurst <cdewhurst2010@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
> > Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
> > looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports "Broken directory" if
> > I try to delete or move it.
>
> > Any way out?
>
> If you can rename it to, say, "zzzz" so it gets put out of the way at the
> bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to
> populate.

Probably not a good approach for the long term, as the disc map clearly
isn't very happy. I'd endorse the advice to check/fix the disc with
DiscKnight, before doing much else with the system.

--
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

Bed page display

In article <5362eae127Lists@Torrens.org.uk>, Richard Torrens (lists)
<Lists@Torrens.org.uk> wrote:

> http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/hammerhandle.html

> is a series of nested tgbles.

Yes, but not the problem, I think.

> The text overwrites, all on one line, with no proper wrapping in the
> cells.

I suspect this is because the page uses a CSS file which includes

body {line-height:0;.......

A line-height of 0 is obviously undesirable and it is not reset to
override this for the other elements used on the page, AFAICS.

You can see it pretty much as intended if you save the web page to RAM
disc and run it from there. As it can't find the 'faulty' CSS file from
its relative URL, it is ignored.

To see it more as intended you can use this link to load the 'invisible'
css file http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/candyedit.css . Save it to ram
disc alongside the web page as candyedit/css then edit it and delete
"line-height:0;" in the first line. Save it. The page then displays
pretty much as intended. Luckily, the images use absolute references.

A good example of 'sledgehammer to crack nut' use of CSS as it adds
almost nothing worthwhile to the page content whatsoever.

Re: Broken directory

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:45:04PM +0000, Christopher Dewhurst wrote:
> Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
> Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
> looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports "Broken directory"
> if I try to delete or move it.
>
> Any way out?
>
> (Using NS 3.1 Dev #1264 on Raspberry Pi but I think the problem has
> been around for a week or two)

Your file system is broken. This is a RISC OS problem as FileCore is
delicate to crashes and power outages. Either rename it out of the way,
reformat/restart the whole thing, or invest in Dave Ruck's excellent
!Disknight to fix the problem.

B.

Re: Broken directory

In article <7f76f76253.crisPi@cdewhurst2010.btinternet.com>,
Christopher Dewhurst <cdewhurst2010@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Not sure if this is a Netsurf or RISC OS specific thing but I noticed
> Netsurf was reverting to default choices and losing its hotlist. I
> looked at !Boot.Choices.WWW.Netsurf which reports "Broken directory"
> if I try to delete or move it.

> Any way out?

If you can rename it to, say, "zzzz" so it gets put out of the way at the
bottom of the filer display, you could create a new empty directory to
populate.

John