on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:00:37PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez (rcsanchez97@yahoo.es) wrote:
> I had been using Daniel Stone's unofficial Xfree86 4.3 for several
> months (which is no longer available). Today I needed to compile
> a program for one of my classes which requires that I have the
> libxaw7-dev packages installed. Of course since Stone's build is
> no longer avilable, I had to update to the experimental Xfree86
> from the Debian repository.
>
> Of course, my system got seriously b0rked in the process since I
> use the proprietary ATi drivers for my Radeon. Anyhow, now WIndow
> Maker segfaults whenevery I start it. I get a little window that
> says "Window Maker has received a signal 11." Then I get three options
> in a little dropdown list:
>
> -Leave a core file and abort
> -Attempt to restart
> -Start an alternate window manager
>
> The abort option just sends me back out to gdm. The restart option
> just redisplays the dialog and forces me to choose again. The last
> option starts twm. In twm, I get my background image from Window
> Maker but no dock apps.
>
> This is very strange, but I am not sure where to go from here.
> I have already uninstalled (purged) all the Window Maker packages
> and reinstalled them. I have also tried downgrading and get the same
> exact results.
My suggestion: run X bare (either 'X' or 'startx xterm') from console.
Launch windowmaker using strace, and log output. When it crashes next,
look at the strace log. Which is likely to be very, very long.
One issue I've found with recent (0.7x, 0.8x) WindowMaker releases is
that if you get enough application windows up, _if_ WindowMaker needs to
restart, then it crashes when switching to workspace #1. Best I can
tell, there are too many tiles for it to deal with gracefully. If I
close some apps, I can generally get things squared away.
This also appears to be resolution dependent -- the more screenspace you
have, the more apps you can run. Right now I've got around 55 windows
open, on 8 workspaces. Pretty typical.
Peace.
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