Narrative

As Fargo was booting up, if there was a watched outline in tabs.json, it would fail.#

Frank reported that the icons wouldn't show up, but when I reproduced the problem it was even more serious -- the app itself didn't load.#

The problem was introduced when I added Fargo Publisher support to Fargo. When the app is booting, appPrefs hasn't yet been set up, so when it tried to read the watched outline, it would fail. I added some defensive driving to the boot-up process to delay the read until the app was fully initialized. But there was some other initializing that wasn't happening, which would cause yet another failure. #

Solution

I solved the problem by having Fargo use the default server to read watched outlines as it's starting up. Once the app is running, it uses the server that's in prefs.json.#

Thanks!

Thanks to Frank McPherson for the excellent report.#