Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 14897
sawfish conflicts between librep and librep_helix packages
Last modified: 2013-04-02 00:14:23 EDT
When upgrading from a stock 6.2 system with helix-gnome added, sawfish consistently fails to run with the following error: [tfox@falcon tfox]$ rpm -q librep librep-0.12.3-0_helix_1 [tfox@falcon tfox]$ sawfish --display=:0.0 Xlib: extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0". sawfish: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librep.so.9: undefined symbol: mpz_init_set_ui [tfox@falcon tfox]$ basically, the librep helix package has problems with the pinstripe sawfish ... this problem did not occur when using enlightenment as the window manager ...
the problem was that the helix librep version is higher than the pinstripe librep version ... downgrading librep (and librep-devel) to the versions shipped in pinstripe fixed the sawfish problem ...
jrb - we need to figure out the upgrade path for those already running sawfish - especially the helix ones as they seem to be breaking all over the place (at least according to the sawfish mail list)
The upgrade path I gave out is simple rpm --erase `rpm -qa |grep helix-` Upgrade Then optionally add the Helix packages.
Surely you mean "helix_" not "helix-". [guru@dhcp1 guru]$ rpm -qa |grep helix_ | wc -l 109 [guru@dhcp1 guru]$ rpm -qa |grep helix- | wc -l 2
Was this fixed? Can it be closed?
It's as fixed as it's going to get. Hopefully jrb won't mind if I close it. ;-)