[racket-dev] drracket crash with bad prefs

Yes, that sounds like exactly what happened. Thanks.


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> That preference setting means that your window was on the second
> monitor (at position x=76, y=9). And it looks like what happened is
> that when you started up drracket a second time, that monitor wasn't
> there anymore and a bug caused it to crash instead of just moving your
> window to an existing monitor.
>
> I've pushed a repair for the crash, but does that sound like a
> plausible scenario?
>
> Robby
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> Occasionally, my prefs file gets into a state where drracket cant
>> start and fails with this error:
>>
>> -: expects type <number> as 2nd argument, given: #f; other arguments were: 76
>>
>>  === context ===
>> C:\plt\collects\framework\private\frame.rkt:255:2
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\drracket\private\frame.rkt:594:4
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\drracket\private\unit.rkt:1301:4
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\drracket\private\module-language.rkt:816:4
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\drracket\private\debug.rkt:1520:4
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\drracket\private\module-language-tools.rkt:50:4
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> C:\plt\collects\drracket\private\syncheck\gui.rkt:1404:6
>> C:\plt\collects\racket\private\class-internal.rkt:3680:0: continue-make-super
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> If I wipe away the following line in the prefs file, it starts fine.
>>
>> (plt:framework-pref:drracket:unit-window-position (1 76 9))
>>
>>
>> But I dont know what I did to get that line to appear in my prefs.
>> Last few things I did was run a slideshow presentation and activated a
>> few lazy stepper windows.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas? I attached the prefs file I'm using. This has
>> never happened before. Has anything changed in those files?
>>
>> Using 5.1.3.10 2011-09-26 on windows xp.
>>
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