Awn

Awn won't start: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Asked by cmc

Hi, running Ubuntu 7.10 on AMD-64. Installed the latest avant-window-manager-bzr debian package today, 10/02/07 from this repository:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 gutsy avant-window-navigator

Complied and everything perfect, but when I tried to run it I got this error message:

root@cameron-laptop:~/awn-curves# avant-window-navigator

** (avant-window-navigator:19752): WARNING **: Failed to make connection to session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

** (avant-window-navigator:19752): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

** (avant-window-navigator:19752): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed

** (avant-window-navigator:19752): WARNING **: There was an error requesting the name: (null)

** (avant-window-navigator:19752): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Screen is composited.
[1]+ Done gedit
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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Michal Hruby (mhr3) said : 		#1

Don't run AWN as root.

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cmc (ctsaul) said : 		#2

When I run AWN as someone other than root, it gives me this message:

cameron@cameron-laptop:~$ avant-window-navigator
Screen is composited.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
cameron@cameron-laptop:~$

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Mark Lee (malept) said : 		#3

What do you get when you run `which avant-window-navigator`?

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cmc (ctsaul) said : 		#4

/usr/local/bin/avant-window-navigator

...

a few days ago, AWN randomly started working. I didn't recompile it or anything, it just started working when i clicked the icon in my menu or ran it from a terminal. It still randomly crashes, but I can always start it right back up.

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Mark Lee (malept) said : 		#5

It appears that you have two installations of Awn on your computer - one that I assume you compiled yourself that's installed in /usr/local, and the one from reacocard's repository that's installed in /usr. Please remove the one in /usr/local by doing the following:

* open a terminal and change the directory to the directory where you compiled Awn from source.
* run `sudo make uninstall`.
* check to see if awn-manager is still in /usr/local/bin by running `ls /usr/local/bin/awn-manager`. If it's still there, run `sudo rm /usr/local/bin/awn-manager` to get rid of it. (Awn before version 0.2.1 didn't uninstall awn-manager properly)

After you do that, please check to see if Awn still segfaults. If so, please follow the instructions on the wiki <http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=SubmittingBugReports> to get a backtrace, and post it here on Launchpad.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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