bug#34152: awesome crashes on reload

bug#34152: awesome crashes on reload

[Bradley Haggerty]

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When trying to reload awesome window manager in-place, it restarts X and
sends me back to the graphical login. It's only supposed to flash for a
second and not even kill any programs. Sometimes I'm able to see something
like "login command failed" printed on the screen.

To recreate this, install the "awesome" package, log in to it, and either
press control-super-r or open the menu in the top left and go to awesome ->
restart.

guix version:
guix (GNU Guix) 1c17adbc7957d024158948a853f4fbc22e52a0f6

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bug#34152: awesome crashes on reload

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

Sorry, it seems this report #34152 [1] ell into the cracks.

1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34152

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:26, Bradley Haggerty <bradigger@gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to reload awesome window manager in-place, it restarts X and sends me back to the graphical login. It's
> only supposed to flash for a second and not even kill any programs. Sometimes I'm able to see something like "login
> command failed" printed on the screen.
>
> To recreate this, install the "awesome" package, log in to it, and either press control-super-r or open the menu in the top
> left and go to awesome -> restart.
>
> guix version:
> guix (GNU Guix) 1c17adbc7957d024158948a853f4fbc22e52a0f6

Is it still the case for you?


Cheers,
simon

bug#34152: awesome crashes on reload

[Bradley Haggerty]

On Wed Oct 4, 2023 at 1:29 PM CDT, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, it seems this report #34152 [1] ell into the cracks.
>
> 1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34152
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 06:26, Bradley Haggerty <bradigger@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When trying to reload awesome window manager in-place, it restarts X and sends me back to the graphical login. It's
> > only supposed to flash for a second and not even kill any programs. Sometimes I'm able to see something like "login
> > command failed" printed on the screen.
> >
> > To recreate this, install the "awesome" package, log in to it, and either press control-super-r or open the menu in the top
> > left and go to awesome -> restart.
> >
> > guix version:
> > guix (GNU Guix) 1c17adbc7957d024158948a853f4fbc22e52a0f6
>
> Is it still the case for you?
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

I've since moved to Sway and am planning to stick with Wayland. I don't
recall the issue ever being fixed while I was still using awesomewm, but
not sure if it works now. Should be easy enough to test if someone was
interested. I'm fine with this being closed since I'm no longer using
awesomewm.

bug#34152: awesome crashes on reload

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 at 13:54, "Bradley Haggerty" <bradigger@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > To recreate this, install the "awesome" package, log in to it, and either press control-super-r or open the menu in the top
>> > left and go to awesome -> restart.
>> >
>> > guix version:
>> > guix (GNU Guix) 1c17adbc7957d024158948a853f4fbc22e52a0f6

> I've since moved to Sway and am planning to stick with Wayland. I don't
> recall the issue ever being fixed while I was still using awesomewm, but
> not sure if it works now. Should be easy enough to test if someone was
> interested. I'm fine with this being closed since I'm no longer using
> awesomewm.

Using Guix 6113e05 and configuration below (adding ’awesome’ in
gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl), I am not able to
reproduce.  Therefore, I am closing.

If someone has more information and also hits this bug, please reopen.

Cheers,
simon

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;; -*- mode: scheme; -*-
;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "desktop" setup without full-blown desktop
;; environments.

(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop)
(use-package-modules bootloaders certs emacs emacs-xyz ratpoison suckless wm
                     xorg)

(operating-system
  (host-name "antelope")
  (timezone "Europe/Paris")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")

  ;; Use the UEFI variant of GRUB with the EFI System
  ;; Partition mounted on /boot/efi.
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
                (targets '("/boot/efi"))))

  ;; Assume the target root file system is labelled "my-root",
  ;; and the EFI System Partition has UUID 1234-ABCD.
  (file-systems (append
                 (list (file-system
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                         (mount-point "/")
                         (type "ext4"))
                       (file-system
                         (device (uuid "1234-ABCD" 'fat))
                         (mount-point "/boot/efi")
                         (type "vfat")))
                 %base-file-systems))

  (users (cons (user-account
                (name "alice")
                (comment "Bob's sister")
                (group "users")
                (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
                                        "audio" "video")))
               %base-user-accounts))

  ;; Add a bunch of window managers; we can choose one at
  ;; the log-in screen with F1.
  (packages (append (list
                     ;; window managers
                     ratpoison i3-wm i3status dmenu
                     emacs emacs-exwm emacs-desktop-environment
                     awesome
                     ;; terminal emulator
                     xterm
                     ;; for HTTPS access
                     nss-certs)
                    %base-packages))

  ;; Use the "desktop" services, which include the X11
  ;; log-in service, networking with NetworkManager, and more.
  (services %desktop-services)

  ;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
  (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
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