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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 12:08:30 +0100
Bo Berglund via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:31:51 +0100, Bo Berglund via lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> 
> >OK, This worked!
> >Now I have a Lazarus IDE running after starting via gdb.
> >Lets see how long it will take before the next crash...  
> 
> So it has been running fine now for 72 hours while I have coded a lot.
> No crashes that plagued me last week. :)
> 
> Two possibilities:
> 1) GDB itself makes the Lazarus application behave better?
> 2) Not using startlazarus when starting lazarus?
> 
> I did use the lazarus program for gdb and not startlazarus...
> 
> If it is the second item then I could well create another desktop file
> that starts lazarus directly instead of using startlazarus in the exec
> command in the desktop file.
> 
> OTOH, if I want to add a package to Lazarus it is my understanding
> that it needs startlazarus in order to recompile itself properly.
> So is that only possible if I have started lazarus by startlazarus or
> will it be able to do the same also if it runs from lazarus only?

It can be started either way.
The restart uses startlazarus.
Of course you can just close and start it manually as well.
 
> Note that here I am talking about running in Linux (Raspbian) and NOT
> on Windows...

Mattias