Description of problem: I installed sawfish via yum under my FC2 Test1 box, but when i try to start it, it hangs. I tried to start it using "killall metacity && sawfish &", it kills metacity but it try to start sawfish, it returns this error message: [acjr@acjr1 acjr]$ killall metacity && sawfish & [1] 3476 [acjr@acjr1 acjr]$ rep: received fatal signal: Illegal instruction struct debug_buf common: Backtrace in `fatal_signal_handler': <(null)+5403480> <__gmpz_init_set_str+79> <rep_parse_number+359> <(null)+3410875> <(null)+3413803> <(null)+3410028> <(null)+3412102> <(null)+3413584> Lisp backtrace: #8 intern-structure ... #7 load-module ... #6 run-byte-code ... #4 make-structure (() #<closure 9f6e920> #<closure 9f6e934> user) #2 load ... #1 run-byte-code ... bash: line 1: 3480 Illegal instruction sawfish Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sawfish-1.3-3 How reproducible: Every time I try to kill metacity and start sawfish. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install sawfish 2. # killall metacity && sawfish & 3. Actual results: It returns a error message Expected results: Start sawfish Additional info:
Works for me here with the same version of sawfish on a system with a current set of packages. Can you confirm whether the problems still persists with you please?
Nils, sawfish is running here now, without problems. This occurred after some updates using yum .... Thanks anyway ...