Hi, > 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.
That would be great. Improvements in robustness are most of tho time a good thing. >> 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. Indeed, it worked - thank you very much for those detailed steps. And if I understand the output correct, wmii is not the problem: Reading symbols from /usr/bin/wmii...(no debugging symbols found)...done. warning: core file may not match specified executable file. [New Thread 2390] [New Thread 2218] [New Thread 2366] [New Thread 2369] [New Thread 2375] [New Thread 2376] [New Thread 2386] [New Thread 2219] [New Thread 2365] [New Thread 2385] Core was generated by `/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/lib/flashplugin-'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x0000000000000000 in _start () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Well, like twenty times a day big letters appear in my head: I hate the Adobe flash player (at least is npviewer.bin its executable)... But honestly, I don't know what the gdb means for my problem (I even had flash not running). Like I said before: It is reproducable by having a window in moving (grab/pan?) mode (so they are floating) while closing it. Typical for this are progress bar windows, they often close automatically. Do you have any idea? >> 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. Oh, ok thanks. But this also sounds not very common or "good", but maybe I'm wrong. Cheers, Tom
