Bug #63832 "Value of -3 is not valid for 'SplitterDistance'....
Submitted: 21 Dec 2011 19:57 Modified: 22 Dec 2011 5:10
Reporter: Ben Guthrie Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.36 OS:Windows
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[21 Dec 2011 19:57] Ben Guthrie 
Description:
Case: Was using MySQL workbench and went to rename a table. Things started to go wrong. The table was there, but some references said it wasn't. Workbench finally crashed when 'select * from table' was called. On restart of workbench, this is the error:

Error:
MySQL Workbench has encountered a problem.

Value of '-3' is not valid for splitter distance'. 'SplitterDistance' must be greater than 0.
Parameter name: SplitterDistance.

How to repeat:
Any time I launch workbench, this is now the error. The database apparently became corrupted.

I doubt I'll try to try to replicate corrupting the database.
[21 Dec 2011 20:08] Ben Guthrie 
This is a duplicate of this bug:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=63582

Deleting the .xml file resolved the issue of Workbench launching.
[21 Dec 2011 20:09] Ben Guthrie 
Workbench's wb_state.xml config file got sideways and needed to be deleted.