Re: Sawfish on ferora 12 has no window frames

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

On 02/01/10 23:26, Allan Duncan wrote:
> On 28/12/09 19:29, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > On 28/12/09 03:21, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > > Am Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:32:31 +1100
> > > schrieb Allan Duncan<amd2345 fastmail com au>:
> > >
> > > > I put sawfish (1.6.0) onto an F12 box, and there are no frames around
> > > > the windows - no size, close, drag etc. If you go to the Sawfish
> > > > Configurator, the Appearance tab has no contents. Xorg 1.7.1, gnome
> > > > 2.28. Works fine on F11. Xorg 1.6.4, gnome 2.26
> > > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Any output in .xsession-errors or stderr, if started from terminal
> > > (`sawfish-config')? Perhaps the themes aren't installed properly.
> >
> > Wierd. When you attempt to start Appearance you get the message:
> > *** Remote sawfish error: (error "can't parse tar file listing line (GNU
> > or Solaris tar required): -rw-r--r-- test-32/test-32 60 2009-12-23 03:47
> > gradient/README\012")
> >
> > (test-32 is the user name).
> >
> > Now, I can "tar -txzf /usr/share/sawfish/1.6.0/themes/gradient.tar.gz"
> > successfully, but does the error mean that it is trying to use the file
> > README as an argument list to tar?
>
> OK, I've had the time to play a little further, and it gets wierder still.
> First I'll describe my setup to show the context of the error messages.
> I have a partition with F11-64, another with F12-32, and a single /home
> partition, with the user alland existing in both F11 and F12, so
> sawfishrc etc is identical on both boots.
> sawfish et al were compiled on F12 under user test-32, and F11 under
> user alland.
>
> Now the interesting bit - when I run sawfish-config as user alland on
> F12, I get a similar but different error meassage as the one above:
> [alland zeus ~]> sawfish-config
> *** Remote sawfish error: (error "can't parse tar file listing line (GNU
> or Solaris tar required): -rw-r--r-- test-32/test-32 760 2009-12-23
> 03:47 Elberg-tabbed/INSTALL\012")
> [alland zeus ~]>
>
> A different themes tar to the earlier barf.
> Note that the owner/group given is that of the compile, not the user
> invoking sawfish.
>
> Now that I've got my working home dir on F12, I'll try recompiling
> sawfish in the vain hope that the hyphenated user name in the tar files
> is the bug.

Vain hope it may have been, but that fixed it.  The only substantive 
system change that I can recollect is a minor update of the compiler.  I 
won't try and pinpoint where the parsing error is, or guess why the 
user/group is even being parsed in the first place.