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01-30-2006 11:27 PM
01-30-2006 11:27 PM
dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
---Message as posted at c.o.v on April 29, 2004---
In my [.DT]ERRORLOG. file I'm getting several errors that look like this:
dtprefs: colon missing on line nn, ignoring entry "\n"
I've searched all the man pages that come with CDE but haven't found any references to dtprefs, and I've google searched for dtprefs, but so far I have had no luck determining what is reporting this error or what file it is reading that has the missing colons.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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01-31-2006 01:20 AM
01-31-2006 01:20 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
I have NO idea...
Did you consider doing a
$ SEARCH [*...]*.* dtprefs
over all your disks, which may contain related programs and data ? I searched on my VAX V7.3 system disk and nothing showed up.
Volker.
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01-31-2006 01:54 AM
01-31-2006 01:54 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
I had something similar to what you suggest but forgot to mention it. (I only searched executables though.)
The only place I found dtprefs was in SYS$LIBRARY:CDE$LIBDTSVC.EXE. Actually, the entire error message text I gave is there.
Does this help any?
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01-31-2006 02:18 AM
01-31-2006 02:18 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
so maybe I should have searched my Alpha system disk instead ;-(
Still no idea. The only other string in that .EXE file, which could be somehow related is:
_DT_SM_PREFERENCES
I don't have any files in my [.DT...] tree, which look remotely related.
Volker.
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01-31-2006 04:15 AM
01-31-2006 04:15 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
Same here...
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01-31-2006 05:59 PM
01-31-2006 05:59 PM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
Check all the resource files in the [.DT...] tree for empty lines and for \n (=newline).
Edwin
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02-02-2006 02:42 AM
02-02-2006 02:42 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
Check all the resource files in the [.DT...] tree for empty lines and for \n (=newline).
Unfortunately it's not at all clear how to reproduce this problem. It's also not clear whether it only occurs on the next login, or on repeated logins. I wonder if some change I make to the session desktop triggers it.
It's also not clear whether the problem is in my "home" session or a saved current session. And it will be difficult to find out since I don't know how to reproduce it.
Once it happens repeatedly, I've hit on a strategy that might help identify the executable that's calling the routine in CDE$LIBDTSVC(or whatever it's called):
Enable image mode accounting, logout, log back in, and disable image mode accounting. Then play back the accounting date (once it's flushed to disk) and correlate image exit times with the time of the "process completion" message that follows the dtprefs messages. This probably won't pin it down exactly but might help me tell which images to check--launch them manually one at a time and see if the same dtprefs messages are produced.
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02-02-2006 02:12 PM
02-02-2006 02:12 PM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
I don't use CDE myself but... I assume that the "nn"
is a valid number. Have you tried looking through
the .DAT files at those line numbers to see if
any of the lines look suspect?
Just a thought.
Dave
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02-02-2006 11:49 PM
02-02-2006 11:49 PM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
Yes, I meant "nn" to represent a line number.
So far I haven't found any of the resource files in [.DT...] that fit with the line numbers. As often as not, line "nn" in any particular file turns out to be a comment or a blank (zero length) line.
(Of course, it's true that most of those lines don't have a colon anywhere. But dtprefs isn't reporting this for many other comment or blank lines.)
And of course it's even more complicated because the problem is hard to reproduce reliably.
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02-03-2006 01:36 AM
02-03-2006 01:36 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
just guessing
Edwin
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02-06-2006 04:17 AM
02-06-2006 04:17 AM
Re: dtprefs error message in [.DT]ERRORLOG.
And by the way have you ever seen a message in your errorlog that goes something like:
Illegal mode: fix
This one is easily traced to the calculator, but I don't know why the calculator would incorrectly save a resource value.