Sawfish is not very robust...

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

sawfish 1.6.1

I updated OpenOffice last night using the openoffice.org distro to 
replace the fedora set, and on the next boot sawfish wouldn't start. 
Trying "sawfish" in a shell I got:
> sawfish
error--> (file-error "No such file or directory" 
"/usr/share/applications/openoffice.org3-startcenter.desktop")
>

Looking at this file I found that it was a symlink to a file no longer 
present, so the error is real, but I consider that for sawfish to turn 
up its toes at this discovery is a bug, as removal of the bad link 
allowed normal operation - the file is not _needed_, just effectively 
corrupt.

Errors/events like this need to be trapped, a message generated, and 
sawfish moves on to the next step, leaving whatever damage in place and 
damn the consequences.

Of course "message generated" is a whole debate in itself :-)