[Lazarus] Lazarus 2.0.6 IDE suddenly disappeared losing a lot of edits...

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:27:40 +0100, Bo Berglund via lazarus 
>I tried but....
>pi at rpi4-gui:~ $ gdb /home/pi/dev/lazarus/2.0.6/lazarus r
>--pcp=/home/pi/.lazarus_2.0.6
>gdb: unrecognized option '--pcp=/home/pi/.lazarus_2.0.6'
>Use `gdb --help' for a complete list of options.
>
>So now the --pcp... argument to lazarus becomes an argument to gdb???
>
>
>>(startlazarus is only needed for: restart and if your laz-install dir is 
>>write-protected (admin install for all users). In the latter case the 
>>rebuild IDE goes into the config path, so each user can have its own 
>>rebuild.)
>
>Does this mean that I should change the Exec in the desktop file
>should be changed from startlazarus to simply lazarus?
>
>>The %f is missing, so you cant double click the file.
>>But you need to run gdb from a terminal (so you can execute bt later), 
>
>>so you need to open the file once the IDE runs.
>
>Normally the previously open project is loaded as soon as the Lazarus
>IDE runs, is this not going to happen now (provided one can get rid of
>the error message above)? I assume you mean open the project?
>
>-- 

After reading the gdb --help screen:

pi at rpi4-gui:~ $ gdb --args /home/pi/dev/lazarus/2.0.6/lazarus
--pcp=/home/pi/.lazarus_2.0.6
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Reading symbols from /home/pi/dev/lazarus/2.0.6/lazarus...done.
(gdb) quit
pi at rpi4-gui:~ $ 

--args needed to send the last arguments to the application
Still Lazarus does not show up on screen...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden