Jabref: Changes to preferences are not saved

Created on 14 Mar 2018 · 12Comments · Source: JabRef/jabref

JabRef 4.2-dev--snapshot--2018-03-13--master--90c7afa1c
Linux 4.13.0-36-generic amd64
Java 1.8.0_161

Steps to reproduce:

open options/preferences
make any change, e.g., entry table columns, or export sort order, or anything afaik
press OK

Nothing happens. The preferences window stays open, and no changes are saved.

Log:

Opening: /home/dom/Dropbox/Projects/HSSA/issue 5.2 rasayana issue/07 Sehnalova/paper/sehnalova.bib
Opening: /home/dom/Dropbox/localtexmf/bibtex/bib/biblio4-utf8.bib
Uncaught exception occurred in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCyclePosition(PreviewPreferences.java:80)
at org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCycle(PreviewPreferences.java:72)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreviewPrefsTab.storeSettings(PreviewPrefsTab.java:247)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.storeAllSettings(PreferencesDialog.java:243)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.access$000(PreferencesDialog.java:54)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog$OkAction.actionPerformed(PreferencesDialog.java:271)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6533)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6298)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2237)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2295)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4889)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4526)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4467)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2281)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Uncaught exception occurred in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCyclePosition(PreviewPreferences.java:80)
at org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCycle(PreviewPreferences.java:72)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreviewPrefsTab.storeSettings(PreviewPrefsTab.java:247)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.storeAllSettings(PreferencesDialog.java:243)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.access$000(PreferencesDialog.java:54)
at org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog$OkAction.actionPerformed(PreferencesDialog.java:271)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6533)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6298)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2237)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2295)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4889)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4526)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4467)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2281)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

good first issue preferences bug 🐛

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wujastyk

Most helpful comment

My simple tests show that changing and then saving preferences now works
fine. Many thanks!

On 16 April 2018 at 03:31, Tobias Diez notifications@github.com wrote:

This should be fixed in the latest development version. Could you please
check the build from http://builds.jabref.org/master/. Thanks!

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wujastyk on 16 Apr 2018

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You seem to have some odd things in your Preview Preferences Tab, Could you try adding and removing some of the Preview Styles? and see if it works afterwards?

Siedlerchr on 14 Mar 2018

I went into Options/Entry preview and deleted the three "current preview"
selections that I have. But then, of course, I still couldn't save the
change. Pressing "OK" did nothing.

I'm not aware of having any odd things in the preview preferences tab. I
have selected three standard styles from the collection on the left window,
that's all. What are you seeing that looks odd?

Best,
Dominik

JabRef 4.2-dev--snapshot--2018-03-13--master--90c7afa1c
Linux 4.13.0-36-generic amd64
Java 1.8.0_161

Log:
Opening: /home/dom/Dropbox/Projects/HSSA/issue 5.2 rasayana issue/07
Sehnalova/paper/sehnalova.bib
Opening: /home/dom/Dropbox/localtexmf/bibtex/bib/biblio4-utf8.bib

Professor Dominik Wujastyk http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca

On 14 March 2018 at 05:38, Christoph notifications@github.com wrote:

You seem to have some odd things in your Preview Preferences Tab, Could
you try adding and removing some of the Preview Styles? and see if it works
afterwards?

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wujastyk on 14 Mar 2018

I opened JabRef 4.0, went into Options/Preferences/Entry preview, and I was able to delete the selected styles in the right pane. But I had to do each one separately, followed by a save. Finally I was down to the default "Preview", and could save.

Then I reopened
JabRef 4.2-dev--snapshot--2018-03-13--master--90c7afa1c
Linux 4.13.0-36-generic amd64
Java 1.8.0_161

and I could now add and remove styles and save.

But with other Options/Preferences, I could still not save. For example I can't change the Appearance. I mean, I can change it, but I can't save the change. Checking many other settings at random, I can't save changes to any of them.

wujastyk on 14 Mar 2018

Hm. The error indicates that something with storing the current cycled position of the preview (when you cycle through the entry preview layouts with F9) is wrong.
Whenever you cycle through the entry previews, the current cycle position is stored. And there the error was raised.

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/ae6d01be46c96ef57e9871dfeb208ab0b7aab295/src/main/java/org/jabref/preferences/PreviewPreferences.java#L75-L82

Siedlerchr on 14 Mar 2018

Do you get now different errors in the log or still the same when you try to save prefs in 4.2?

Siedlerchr on 14 Mar 2018

In line 80, you may divide by 0 (implicitly using the reminder % operation) and thus the error occurs.

tobiasdiez on 14 Mar 2018

This is the log after opening
JabRef 4.2-dev--snapshot--2018-03-13--master--90c7afa1c
Linux 4.13.0-36-generic amd64
Java 1.8.0_161,
opening Options/Preferences and trying (and failing) to change Appearance:

Opening: /home/dom/Dropbox/Projects/HSSA/issue 5.2 rasayana issue/07
Sehnalova/paper/sehnalova.bib
Opening: /home/dom/Dropbox/localtexmf/bibtex/bib/biblio4-utf8.bib
Uncaught exception occurred in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at
org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCyclePosition(PreviewPreferences.java:80)
at
org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCycle(PreviewPreferences.java:72)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreviewPrefsTab.storeSettings(PreviewPrefsTab.java:247)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.storeAllSettings(PreferencesDialog.java:243)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.access$000(PreferencesDialog.java:54)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog$OkAction.actionPerformed(PreferencesDialog.java:271)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6533)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6298)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2237)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2295)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4889)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4526)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4467)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2281)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at
java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at
java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at
java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Uncaught exception occurred in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at
org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCyclePosition(PreviewPreferences.java:80)
at
org.jabref.preferences.PreviewPreferences$Builder.withPreviewCycle(PreviewPreferences.java:72)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreviewPrefsTab.storeSettings(PreviewPrefsTab.java:247)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.storeAllSettings(PreferencesDialog.java:243)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog.access$000(PreferencesDialog.java:54)
at
org.jabref.gui.preftabs.PreferencesDialog$OkAction.actionPerformed(PreferencesDialog.java:271)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6533)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6298)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2237)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4889)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2295)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at
java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4889)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4526)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4467)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2281)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at
java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at
java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at
java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

Professor Dominik Wujastyk http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca

On 14 March 2018 at 10:30, Christoph notifications@github.com wrote:

Do you get now different errors in the log or still the same when you try
to save prefs in 4.2?

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wujastyk on 14 Mar 2018

This should be fixed in the latest development version. Could you please check the build from http://builds.jabref.org/master/. Thanks!

tobiasdiez on 16 Apr 2018

My simple tests show that changing and then saving preferences now works
fine. Many thanks!

On 16 April 2018 at 03:31, Tobias Diez notifications@github.com wrote:

This should be fixed in the latest development version. Could you please
check the build from http://builds.jabref.org/master/. Thanks!

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wujastyk on 16 Apr 2018

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Sorry if this is not the place to ask this, but are the preferences saved in a file? If so, where is it located?

douglasrizzo on 10 Jan 2019

Nevermind, I found them at ~/.java/.userPrefs/org/jabref.

douglasrizzo on 10 Jan 2019

The storage location is the default preference storage location from Java. It differs on systems. On Unix it's stored in files, in windows in the registry

Siedlerchr on 10 Jan 2019

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