Re: Was there ever a fix for Sawmill not coming up as a user?

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Certainly was... here's the repost. Please read the entire message as your
installation my vary, but the overall structure and fix action should remain
the same. For any questions feel free to email me personally.


Darryl

My path with the helix update on redhat 6.0 is
/usr/libexec/sawfish/0.30.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/DOC, but that did it.
Thanks so much.

Gary


On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> While searching the sawfish site I came across this workaround. Tried it
> and so far its fixed the problem.  One thing in that path where it says
> "~/0.30.3/i386-redhat-linux/DOC " change that to
> "~/0.30.2/i386-redhat-linux/DOC" if you're running the latest helix
> version of sawfish.  Best luck
>
>
> " I don't know what the real solution is, but someone was kind enough to
>
> send me the following:
>
> >just wanted to let you know how to work around
> >that annoying little bug (in case you're still
> >looking for a quick'n dirty workaround)
> >
> >just do a chmod 666 on
> >/usr/libexec/sawfish/0.30.3/i386-redhat-linux/DOC
>
> I did this and it seems to work.
>
> If someone knows what the real problem or solution
> is (an installation problem?) I would love to hear
> from you.  Otherwise, this has worked for me and
> it might help someone else browsing these archives.
>
> Cory "

Rebecca Ore wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Rebecca Ore wrote:
>
> > I still can't get Sawmill to load from the Control Panel as a user.
> > I've used Helix Gnome's Sawmill and a new set of rpms.  Still nothing.
> > So far, it's the only program that's behaving like this.  I remember
> > two others reporting the same problem.
>
> I rebuilt all the relevant packages from newer source and all is okay
> now.  Don't know why the earlier versions weren't working, some thing
> fairly subtle as it appears nobody else was having the problems.
>
> Everything else from Helix Gnome works fine.
>
> --
> Rebecca Ore
> http://www.ogoense.net
>
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