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Horizon is a free EDA package
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Handle read-only $HOME better #334

Open rroohhh opened 4 years ago

rroohhh commented 4 years ago

For reasons my $HOME is readonly, so when I start horizon I am presented by this error message:

$ ./build/horizon-eda
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Gio::Error'
Aborted

While one can figure out the reason for this error (for example by using strace), it would be nice if the error message would be a bit more descriptive and include what actually went wrong.

carrotIndustries commented 4 years ago

Please run horizon-eda in gdb and tell it to break on exceptions (catch throw) to figure out where exactly it fails.

rroohhh commented 4 years ago

Ah sorry should have included that information initially:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff6399240 in __cxa_throw () from /gnu/store/347y0zr1a9s2f5pkcncgi3gd0r33qq81-gcc-9.2.0-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff7710157 in Gio::Error::throw_func(_GError*) () from /home/robin/.guix-profile/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1
#2  0x00007ffff75a46f4 in Glib::Error::throw_exception(_GError*) () from /home/robin/.guix-profile/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#3  0x00007ffff7716c8e in Gio::File::make_directory_with_parents() () from /home/robin/.guix-profile/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1
#4  0x00000000005f43e9 in horizon::create_config_dir () at src/util/util.cpp:266
#5  0x00000000004abaa7 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd968) at src/pool-prj-mgr/pool-prj-mgr-main.cpp:11

So it fails while trying to create the config directory.