[Gobe Productive] doesnt load splash screen correctly

[johndrinkwater]

Gobe opens a small bordered window in the centre of the screen, yet no controls are visible. Doesn't crash, just stays there waiting for vulcan.

[johndrinkwater]

Gobe splash

[darkwyrm]

As of r17329, this still occurs. I think it *might* be a problem with the ELF loader - with libprefs v1.25 I got the same problems as described and in the Terminal there was a message about an invalid ELF format.

[kvdman]

I have this problem as well with libprefs.

Found sources here:

 http://bryan.varnernet.com/software/beos/libprefs/

Can download libprefs1.2.5 here:

 http://files.bebits.com/pub/mirror/beware/libraries/

Old libprefs info here:

 http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/beware/Libraries/libprefs.html

I've tried libprefs1.2.5 and 1.2.3 and get the elf loader errors ('incorrect elf header').

The splash screen loads but stops on loading preferences (doesn't crash). How do you get a backtrace if the program doesn't crash??

I've attached a screenshot using gdb and the 'start' command. Don't know if this helps.

Funny, I'm using my copy of GobeProductive from Zeta that I bought, and you'd figure the library would be on Zeta's disk, but it's not. I've read that Gobe uses the library to load the preferences, so how does it work on Zeta without the library?

thx

[axeld]

The libprefs of that archive are in PEF format, it's an ancient R3 Intel executable :-)

[axeld]

Fixed in r22724. libprefs is built into Gobe Productive and looped endlessly, since the private _klock_node_() function was not implemented in Haiku.