[Lazarus] A broken dummy package was created

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:20:17 +0200
Roland Turcan <konf at rotursoft.sk> wrote:

> <<< 30.09.2009 16:42 - Mattias Gärtner "nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de" >>>
> MG> Zitat von Roland Turcan <konf at rotursoft.sk>:
> 
> >> Hello Lazarus mailing list!
> >>
> >> I have updated my Lazarus to rev.21928 and I receive this error
> >> message with this build:
> >>
> >> The package "rotursoft" is installed, but no valid package (.lpk)
> >> was found. A broken dummy package was created.
> 
> MG> It means, you started a lazarus, which has an installed package
> MG> named "rotursoft". The IDE failed to find the rotursoft.lpk.
> 
> MG> If rotursoft.lpk still exists, open it once via the IDE.
> MG> If you deleted rotursoft.lpk then you should uninstall it
> MG> (Packages / Configure installed packages).
> MG> If you already uninstalled the package, then you started the old
> MG> lazarus.
> 
> Thanks for reply, but...
> 
> I didn't do any change in package or lazarus configuration.
> 
> I start Lazarus usually from dock, which points to
> /Application/Lazarus.app/Contents/MacOS/lazarus which is symlink to
> /Users/test/lazarus/startlazarus
> 
> When I open terminal and jump into directory /Users/test/lazarus/ and
> call for ./startlazarus, then Lazarus starts fine without any error
> message. The component palette is filled up with my components and my
> project is built fine.
> 
> PS: Even my project cannot be started from dock, but from terminal
> can.

Is this OS X 10.4 or 10.5?
How do you start from Terminal?

Mattias