[Scribus] Preferences lost on restart

[Femke Snelting]

Hello Craig,

Scribus does close properly; I didn't go through your system checks but 
have tested the preference issue on two different fresh installs of 
Ubuntu Feisty. Could it be related to the distribution (we're having 
quite some other strange inconsistencies with fonts and styles here 
unfortunately) than?

best,

Femke

Craig Ringer wrote:
> Femke Snelting wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I noticed that in v. 1.3.4 some of the global preference settings 
>> (Language, ICC profile path, Units, Bleeds, Baseline grid, Color 
>> Management but for example not Font settings) are lost after restarting 
>> my machine.
>>
>> The settings seem to be kept on restart of the application, but not on 
>> system restart.
> 
> When you close Scribus, does it exit completely, or is there still a
> `scribus' process hanging around?
> 
> You can check this with the `ps' command or using a GUI process monitor
> tool.
> 
> If it closes completely, and when you open it again it remembers your
> settings but they're lost on restart, I would suspect a system problem
> such as file system damage.
> 
> I very strongly recommend doing some low level system verification, such
> as booting your computer up into single user command line mode and
> checking your file systems with the "fsck" command. Exact procedures for
> checking file systems are somewhat system and distro dependent, and
> unfortunately usually not very user friendly. You might also want to run
> a hard disk test with the smartctl command from smartmontools, though
> this isn't the most user friendly process.
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
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