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Old 11-28-2015, 01:57 AM   #1
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Bluefish does not open


I just did a fresh install of mint 17.2 and bluefish does not open. I installed from the software center and tried to open it. The cursor shows it working if on the taskbar for about 30 seconds then nothing. I uninstalled then reinstalled with the same effect. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
 
Old 11-28-2015, 04:38 AM   #2
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Run it in a terminal, do you see any error messages?
 
Old 11-28-2015, 11:54 AM   #3
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My software center says it is installed. When running from terminal I got...

bluefish
error reading list 1 Error opening file: No such file or directory

** (bluefish:2304): WARNING **: no configfile rcfile-2.0, try to convert config files from older versions

config file migration error 1:Error opening file: No such file or directoryerror reading list 1 Error opening file: No such file or directory

(bluefish:2304): GLib-ERROR **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.40.2/./glib/gmem.c:103: failed to allocate 18446744073687917634 bytes
Trace/breakpoint trap
 
Old 11-28-2015, 12:43 PM   #4
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That last error is peculiar. "Failed to allocate ... bytes." That number is so large it is 16 exabytes.
 
Old 11-28-2015, 01:24 PM   #5
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Hi sraidr69....

Does the solution here work?

Regards...
 
Old 11-28-2015, 01:28 PM   #6
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How did you install it?
 
Old 11-28-2015, 04:23 PM   #7
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if ardvark is correct, the command
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rm -r ~/.bluefish
should fix it.
 
Old 11-29-2015, 12:16 AM   #8
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So I followed arkvark71's link, then the link in there to Ubuntu forums and found this which fixed the issue...

Text editors and wordprocessors usually offer us an option to open Recently Used documents. Some, like Bluefish, open with the last opened document in the editing window. But Bluefish cannot find the last opened document that it has in its records because you have renamed it. Un-installing and re-installing Bluefish did not remove/delete your Bluefish user configuration file. Bluefish is accessing the same user file as before.

Open the file manager and go to its View menu and tick show Hidden files. Now look in your home folder for a folder called .bluefish. The dot ( . ) makes the folder/file hidden unless we tick "show hidden files."

That is where Bluefish keeps your user configurations for Bluefish. You can delete that folder or examine the files in the folder and delete one of them. It will set Bluefish back to a default setting as when it was first installed. You may need to re-install Bluefish again. May be not.


Thank you for all the help.
 
Old 11-29-2015, 03:47 AM   #9
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glad to be of help.
please mark this thread [Solved]. i believe that's in thread tools at the top.
 
Old 11-29-2015, 04:19 AM   #10
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Thank you for all the help.
You're welcome. As ondoho has mentioned above, please mark this thread as "SOLVED" by clicking on "Thread Tools" directly above your initial post. Thanks!

Regards...
 
  


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