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and subject line Bug#1135564: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #661649,
regarding sawfish: Gnome 3 fallback + sawfish fails to start
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661649: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661649
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Package: sawfish
Version: 1:1.5.3-2.1+b1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After the upgrade to Gnome 3, I have tried to start sawfish as the default
window manager in several ways, which almost all fail and give the Gnome
fullscreen message "something has gone wrong, please logout". I can however
kill the default WM when logged into a Gnome session and then start sawfish,
this works fine, it shows no errors on the command line.
I tried the following things to make sawfish the default WM:
1. add the line: export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish
to the .profile line, since the /usr/bin/gnome-wm script looks for this
environment variable to start the preferred WM.
Sawfish is started but the Gnome session stalls and the Gnome error screen
appears.
2. I make files /usr/share/xsession/gnome-fallback-sawfish.desktop,
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback-sawfish.session and
/usr/bin/gnome-session-fallback-sawfish, the latter one refering to the
.session file (see /usr/bin/gnome-session-fallback) changing in the .session
file the WM from gnome-wm to sawfish
Sawfish is started but the Gnome session stalls and the Gnome error screen
appears.
3. I changed the order of known WM's in the /usr/bin/gnome-wm script to sawfish
first.
Sawfish is started but the Gnome session stalls and the Gnome error screen
appears.
I would expect that any of the three things above would properly start a Gnome
session with sawfish, however, this unfortunately seems in vain. Next to this
bug, I would like to know if I do something entirely wrong and there might be
another way to start sawfish as a default WM.
Yours,
Tjeerd Pinkert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set
LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sawfish depends on:
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.2.1-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.2.0-2
ii libaudiofile1 0.3.3-2
ii libc6 2.13-26
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.2
ii libesd0 0.2.41-10+b1
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3.1
ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6
ii libgmp10 2:5.0.4+dfsg-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.9-2
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2
ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-2
ii librep9 0.90.2-1.3
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4
ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3
ii libxft2 2.2.0-3
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.1-3
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-2
ii rep 0.90.2-1.3
ii rep-gtk 1:0.90.0-2
ii sawfish-data 1:1.5.3-2.1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 276-2
sawfish recommends no packages.
Versions of packages sawfish suggests:
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-2
ii menu 2.1.46
ii yelp 3.2.1+dfsg-1+b1
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:1.11.90-1.2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package sawfish has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1135564
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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