Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hi,
>
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>
>> It seems to me that StumpWM broke somehow, for some reason. I can
>> confirm there was a version change:
>>
>> -sbcl-stumpwm@18.05:out
>> /gnu/store/i0picr2xr2aq2a52nsaw67nvar1r3khw-sbcl-stumpwm-18.05
>> +sbcl-stumpwm@18.11:out
>> /gnu/store/6h2iln76dx8pxdp1hsaqb1yncm8viczj-sbcl-stumpwm-18.11
>>
>> I am not sure if this is the cause or something else. At any rate, when
>> I try to run commands such as "gnew" (the command to make a new
>> group/workstation) I get back:
>>
>> Error In Command 'gnew': invalid number of arguments: 2
>>
>> I though I'd try running the command manually and check the error, but
>> this also happens with eval! Some other commands are not affected.
>>
>> (I can try re-enabling the live REPL in StumpWM to play around with it,
>> but I currently have it off because they have the same live hacking
>> vulnerability in SBCL/SLIME that we had in Guile/Geiser some time ago.)
>
> Pierre, does that ring a bell?
>
> Others on the mailing list reported being happy with the upgrade, but
> maybe they use different bits of StumpWM.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
I did a quick patch to see if downgrading would fix the problems I was
having:
#+BEGIN_SRC diff
diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
index d8da2951d..18b68cb07 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm
@@ -1020,6 +1020,19 @@ productive, customizable lisp based systems.")
(license license:gpl2+)
(properties `((cl-source-variant . ,(delay cl-stumpwm))))))
+(define-public stumpwm-18.05
+ (package
+ (inherit stumpwm)
+ (version "18.05")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/archive/";
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32 "1n2gaab3lwgf5r1hmwdcw13dkv9xdd7drn2shx28kfxvhdc9kbb9"))
+ (file-name (string-append "stumpwm-" version ".tar.gz"))))))
+
(define-public sbcl-stumpwm
(deprecated-package "sbcl-stumpwm" stumpwm))
#+END_SRC
The problems went away.
I'd be curious to hear indeed if anyone else is having trouble making
groups... if I'm the only one, I wonder what it could be about my
configuration that is causing this.
