On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Tom Kazimiers <t...@voodoo-arts.net> wrote: >> This error is caused by an incomplete status bar definition: there a >> status bar applet defined in your config which lacks a "label" >> subsection. > > I looked into my config file and found the following status bar applets: > > But why should a applet fail that late? I mean, it seems to work all the > time except such situations.
You're right. I will add error checking, to detect a missing "label" section, right at the beginning when the status bar applet is initialized. >>> So I guess Sunakus ruby wmiirc is the problem? >> >> I don't think so :) wmiirc crashes generally do not cause wmii to >> crash. It is a serious matter if the entire WM crashes, leaving you >> at a virtual terminal. > > Well, ok :-). I am not exactly left on a virtual terminal. More I am > thrown to gdm - the login screen. But I guess there is not much > difference in this case. I see. >> I would recommend that you enable core dumps (ulimit -c unlimited), >> run wmii, cause the crash to occur, and send a GDB backtrace to this >> mailing list: >> >> gdb `which wmii` your_core_dump_file >> bt full > > Thanks for the tip. If I have done it correctly I get no core file > generated. To enable core dumps I executed "ulimit -c unlimited" and > instead of starting "wmii" after login, I started the above gdb line. > Unfortunately without success, did I do something wrong? Yes, the steps you took seem incorrect. The above commands are only useful after a core dump has been generated. Since you are running wmii via GDM (which is run by root, I would assume) things are a bit more complicated. I would recommend trying this simpler (startx) approach: 1. Go to a virtual terminal (control-alt-f2) 2. Log in 3. Run "ulimit -c unlimited" 4. Run "startx wmii -- :1" 5. Make wmii crash 6. You should have a core* file in your home dir. 7. Run the gdb commands on the core dump file. > But what I got is more log entries from "~/.wmii-hg/wmiirc.log": > > E, [2010-02-17T02:08:29.687682 #31728] ERROR -- : Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE) This is a harmless error, which says that wmii abruptly closed the 9P socket through which it and Rumai communicate.
