Hi,

Long time ago I created my custom activator in start menu. It worked fine. But few weeks ago, with recent dist upgrade I see only app icon for a second in task bar and nothing happen, application is not running. It is placed in dev category. Command line in activator item is:

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/home/kris/programowanie/lazarus_1_8/mystartlazarus.sh

And script by itself:

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 #!/usr/bin/env bash

PATH="/home/kris/programowanie/fpc2/fpc/bin/:$PATH"
exec ~/programowanie/lazarus_1_8/startlazarus --pcp=~/.lazarus_1_8

Note if I go to lazarus_1_8 dir and run ./mystartlazarus.sh from console then everything is fine. Where I can see in logs what is going wrong behind?

Regards

run the script itself outside its location in a terminal to see where it is failing

ie

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sh /home/kris/programowanie/lazarus_1_8/mystartlazarus.sh

or similar

It start fine. Weird. Problem is only with this specific program, my another custom activator works fine but it start binary executable directly, no sh script

Running with sh on the front is only necessary if the script isn't marked executable. Claydoh's suggestion is to see if launching it in another working directory (or with no working directory) results in any errors.

Another option is in the properties dialog for the (activator) shortcut, under Application -> Advanced Options there should be an option to Run in Terminal which you can check (along with Do not close when command exits) to have it display the command output when you use the shortcut.

airdrik wrote:Running with sh on the front is only necessary if the script isn't marked executable. Claydoh's suggestion is to see if launching it in another working directory (or with no working directory) results in any errors.

Single call "/home/kris/programowanie/lazarus_1_8/mystartlazarus.sh" outside dir, without "sh" prefix also works fine

airdrik wrote:Another option is in the properties dialog for the (activator) shortcut, under Application -> Advanced Options there should be an option to Run in Terminal which you can check (along with Do not close when command exits) to have it display the command output when you use the shortcut.

Ok, we have something new, with terminal option I get message (from polish translation):

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Warning: '/home/kris/programowanie/lazarus_1_8/mystartlazarus.sh' can not be run with '/home/kris/programowanie/lazarus_1_8/mystartlazarus.sh' parameters.

Warning: execve: Invalid executable file format

Both files "mystartlazarus.sh" and "startlazarus" are marked as executable. In activator settings I added "sh" prefix before path to script and everything works fine again! Thanks gays! But weird that it wasn't necessary before