Glad that helped :)

I see this when I start from a fresh install vs expanding the ZIP into the same directory. 

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 5:17 PM Rick Graham <rickhg12hs@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Bridger!

Indeed, I quit basexgui and manually edited .basexgui to set the project directory to a newly created empty directory.  basexgui seems normal/stable after that.

I rarely, as in almost never, use wine but I didn't have this issue with previous versions of BaseX.  Something seems unexpected here.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:04 PM Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Rick, et al,

I think (but am not 100% sure) that the GUI defaults to looking through your home directory on startup. So, somewhere in `~/rick/.wine/dosdevices/...` you have symbolic links that are looped.

I think you might be able to circumvent this problem by finding `.basexgui` - it would probably be close to wherever you started the GUI from on your filesystem. I think you can edit some of the PATHS there and that may help?

Again, I'm not sure. HTH!

Best,

Bridger

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Rick Graham <rickhg12hs@gmail.com> wrote:

The command-line seemed to be operating normally.

What exactly is/are my project directories?

I attached to the running GUI instance `strace -f -e trace=stat -p 13368` and it has infinite repetitions of:

[pid 13436] stat("/home/rick/.wine/dosdevices/z:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone0/device/subsystem/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:75/subsystem/devices/PNP0C0A:02", 0x7f7beb2796e0) = -1 ELOOP (Too many levels of symbolic links)

What's going on here?

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:21 PM Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

at org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:167)
at org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)
at org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)
at org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)

Looks like a endless loop that is caused by parsing the files in your project directory. Do you possibly have any symbolic links?

Can you reproduce the problem with a completely fresh BaseX zip archive?