Re: [ROOT] strange root bug

From: daan (hubert@hep.iihe.ac.be)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 14:42:13 MEST


problem solved... realplayer had taken all the space in /tmp, which
caused the strange behaviour.


daan


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, daan wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I experience following strange root (4.00/04) behaviour on my gcc2.95.3
> suse 8.0 box:
>
> When I try to load a root-file with
>
>  root -l file.root
>
> nothing appears when looking at directory contents with .ls
> Moreover, when I try a "TBrowser b" in the same ROOT session no window
> appears. Also all tab completions for root classes seem to be gone.
>
> When I close this root4.00/04 session and use another root version
> (3.10/02) the same problem remains. It seems not to depend on the
> ROOT version.
>
> I could get rid of this behaviour, but have no idea how I did it. The
> problem appears to be occuring at random: sometimes it works, sometimes it
> doesn't work.
>
> Could this be related to the fact that my root file is in a directory
> which contains "." in the basename (/blablabla/NN.showers/analysis)? This
> is the only thing I could possibly think of. Although after the problem
> has appeared for a root file in /blablabla/NN.showers/analysis, it also
> occurs for root files in /blablabla/NN/analysis...
>
>
> This is the first time I saw this, and I am completely puzzled. I have
> absolutely no idea what is happening. It seems to be completely random...
>
> Could someboday help me out?
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
> daan
>
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