2:26 a.m.
Recently I've been suffering increasingly frequent corruption of my
Netsurf hotlist - the telltale symptom is that program beeps on
shutdown, and when it is re-started the hotlist file is truncated and
the remaining portion subtly altered (see artifact 3587232 on bug list)
Mertin has also been complaining of this but that is unsurprising as he
is using the same copy of the application on the same machine (just with
different files in Choices); however this does suggest that it isn't
just some malformation of my particular hotlist file that is causing the
problem.
Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?
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3:43 a.m.
In message <60245ff252.harriet(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <lists(a)orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?
Yes, most of my Hotlist has vanished too :-(
Looking at the Hotlist file it is not corrupted, the html is
perfectly formed, it's just missing all but the first 35ish
entries.
Bryan.
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9:16 a.m.
On 22 Nov 2012 Bryan Hogan <netsurf(a)helpful.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In message <60245ff252.harriet(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
Harriet Bazley <lists(a)orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?
Yes, most of my Hotlist has vanished too :-(
Looking at the Hotlist file it is not corrupted, the html is
perfectly formed, it's just missing all but the first 35ish
entries.
And have had that recently happen here, too.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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9:36 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:16:26AM +0000, Peter Young wrote:
>> Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?
> Yes, most of my Hotlist has vanished too :-(
> Looking at the Hotlist file it is not corrupted, the html is
> perfectly formed, it's just missing all but the first 35ish
> entries.
And have had that recently happen here, too.
It would be massively helpful if people seeing this behaviour could attempt to
determine if this is a loading or saving issue -- This can be done by editing
the file in Zap or StrongEd and then starting NetSurf before looking in the
NetSurf hotlist window to see if the added items are visible, and then quitting
NetSurf and seeing if they get saved back out to the hostlist file.
We did recently rewrite the hotlist code, so any hints are gratefully received.
If any of you had backups of your hotlist from before NetSurf seems to have
lost entries, you could use copies of those backups to do the test. If the
problem manifests repeatably, then copies of the offending hotlists would go a
long way to helping us diagnose and fix the fault.
Many thanks,
Daniel.
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9:59 a.m.
In article <20121122083649.GA3366(a)somnambulist.local>,
Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
If any of you had backups of your hotlist from before NetSurf seems
to have
lost entries, you could use copies of those backups to do the test. If the
problem manifests repeatably, then copies of the offending hotlists would go a
long way to helping us diagnose and fix the fault.
It's a saving issue. Just closed Netsurf and watched the file shrink from
16K to 552 bytes.
Both attached
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12:12 p.m.
In article <S2f288a3d7Lists(a)Torrens.org.uk>,
Richard Torrens (lists) <Lists(a)Torrens.org.uk> wrote:
In article <20121122083649.GA3366(a)somnambulist.local>,
Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> If any of you had backups of your hotlist from before NetSurf seems to
> have lost entries, you could use copies of those backups to do the
> test. If the problem manifests repeatably, then copies of the
> offending hotlists would go a long way to helping us diagnose and fix
> the fault.
It's a saving issue. Just closed Netsurf and watched the file
shrink from
16K to 552 bytes.
Both attached
Should have said this is with 3.0 (Dev CI #656)
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11:27 a.m.
Daniel Silverstone, on 22 Nov, wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:16:26AM +0000, Peter Young wrote:
> > > Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?
> > Yes, most of my Hotlist has vanished too :-( Looking at the Hotlist
> > file it is not corrupted, the html is perfectly formed, it's just
> > missing all but the first 35ish entries.
> And have had that recently happen here, too.
It would be massively helpful if people seeing this behaviour could
attempt to determine if this is a loading or saving issue -- This can be
done by editing the file in Zap or StrongEd and then starting NetSurf
before looking in the NetSurf hotlist window to see if the added items are
visible, and then quitting NetSurf and seeing if they get saved back out
to the hostlist file.
We did recently rewrite the hotlist code, so any hints are gratefully
received.
FWIW I note the Hotlist generated by #665 is missing the </head> tag. OTOH I
have not seen the Hotlist get truncated yet.
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1:38 p.m.
In article <mpro.mdvx2l006wxwx02rx.pittdj(a)pittdj.co.uk>,
David Pitt <pittdj(a)pittdj.co.uk> wrote:
FWIW I note the Hotlist generated by #665 is missing the
</head>
tag. OTOH I have not seen the Hotlist get truncated yet.
Having now checked on both Iyonix and ARMini, both hotlists are
truncated. Since I 'auto-upgrade' NetSurf very regularly (at least
daily), and only keep the last 3 versions I have no idea when it
started. I never noticed before, since my most frequented sites are
at the top of the list, so probably haven't needed to scroll down the
list for maybe weeks.
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Chris Johnson
12:01 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:43:24AM +0000, Tony Moore wrote:
On 22 Nov 2012, Daniel Silverstone
<dsilvers(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
[snip]
> We did recently rewrite the hotlist code,
What was the first #number of this change?
I do not recall. It was done not long after the hack weekend though, so you
should be able to trace it.
D.
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5:59 p.m.
In article <20121122110116.GF3366(a)somnambulist.local>, Daniel Silverstone
<dsilvers(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> What was the first #number of this change?
I do not recall. It was done not long after the hack weekend though,
so
you should be able to trace it.
Would it be possible to have once again something like the old builds page
detailing changes between test versions, or is that too much unproductive
work?
John
6:02 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:59:21PM +0100, John Williams wrote:
In article <20121122110116.GF3366(a)somnambulist.local>, Daniel
Silverstone
<dsilvers(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> > What was the first #number of this change?
> I do not recall. It was done not long after the hack weekend though, so
> you should be able to trace it.
Would it be possible to have once again something like the old builds page
detailing changes between test versions, or is that too much unproductive
work?
http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/job/netsurf/BUILD_JS=jsoff,CC=gcc,T...
The list of builds down the left hand side has links to a details page
for each, which includes the change messages for the commits included in
that build, with links to diffs on the cgit revision viewer.
B.
6:15 p.m.
In article <20121122170227.GU3859(a)pepperfish.net>,
Rob Kendrick <rjek(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> Would it be possible to have once again something like the old
builds
> page detailing changes between test versions, or is that too much
> unproductive work?
Sorry - Pluto breaks link! See Message-ID:
<20121122170227.GU3859(a)pepperfish.net>
The list of builds down the left hand side has links to a details
page
for each, which includes the change messages for the commits included in
that build, with links to diffs on the cgit revision viewer.
Thanks!
John
8:24 p.m.
On 22 Nov 2012, Rob Kendrick <rjek(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:59:21PM +0100, John Williams wrote:
[snip]
> Would it be possible to have once again something like the old
> builds page detailing changes between test versions, or is that too
> much unproductive work?
http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/jenkins/job/netsurf/BUILD_JS=jsoff,CC=gcc,T...
The list of builds down the left hand side has links to a details page
for each, which includes the change messages for the commits included
in that build, with links to diffs on the cgit revision viewer.
At present, the earliest build available on that page is #641. How is it
possible to access earlier builds? I wish to identify the build in which
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3579166&group_id...
first occurred. This lies between #417 and #461.
Tony
9:04 p.m.
In article <60245ff252.harriet(a)blueyonder.co.uk>,
Harriet Bazley <lists(a)orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
Recently I've been suffering increasingly frequent corruption of
my
NetSurf hotlist
The hotlist gets truncated when it fails to save one of the entries.
Since hotlist load/save was ported from libxml to libdom it has failed to
handle HTML entities. So the hotlist will get truncated before the first
entry to contain an "unusual" character.
The beep is because NetSurf opens a warning dialogue box to report the
problem, although since it is quitting, you won't get a chance to see it
before NetSurf quits.
In article <8f7cb4f252.pnyoung(a)pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
Peter Young <pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk> wrote:
What I do is to open the global history from the icon bar icon, do
menu
over the history > History > Export, and drag the file to the icon bar
icon.
That's the same problem. The warning mentions the hotlist because global
history and hotlist share the same code for saving.
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9:11 p.m.
On 22 Nov 2012 Michael Drake <tlsa(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
In article <60245ff252.harriet(a)blueyonder.co.uk>,
Harriet Bazley <lists(a)orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
> Recently I've been suffering increasingly frequent corruption
of my
> NetSurf hotlist
The hotlist gets truncated when it fails to save one of the entries.
Since hotlist load/save was ported from libxml to libdom it has
failed to
handle HTML entities. So the hotlist will get truncated before the first
entry to contain an "unusual" character.
The beep is because NetSurf opens a warning dialogue box to report
the
problem, although since it is quitting, you won't get a chance to see it
before NetSurf quits.
In article <8f7cb4f252.pnyoung(a)pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
Peter Young <pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> What I do is to open the global history from the icon bar icon,
do menu
> over the history > History > Export, and drag the file to the icon bar
> icon.
That's the same problem. The warning mentions the hotlist
because global
history and hotlist share the same code for saving.
Thanks for the explanation. I imagine it's being worked on, so I will
be patient.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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